Human Gut Microbiota Profiles related to Mediterranean and West African diets and Association with Blasto-cystis subtypes

The gut microbiota plays a role in so many functions that it is now studied as an organ. Notably, the effects of geographical differences, along-side factors like age, diet, and drug treatments, have not always been thoroughly analyzed in African countries. The eukaryotic component is an aspect of the gut microbiota that still requires much investigation. This study compares the composition of the gut microbiota of Italian subjects and two African groups, one from the Cote d'Ivoire and another tem-porarily in Italy. The research also examines the influence of major food choices in these groups and the effects of Blastocystis presence or absence, given its status as the most com-mon unicellular protozoan worldwide.