New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) A team of US researchers has found that Salmonella bacteria — a major reason behind food poisoning — gets inside the gut by tricking the protective bacteria.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 600 million people get sick from unsafe food every year, while 420,000 people annually die from unsafe food.
Salmonella is the most common cause of food poisoning. It can be found in raw eggs, undercooked poultry, beef, pork, vegetables, and processed foods.
Trillions of bacteria reside in the gut and many produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that help fight harmful pathogens.
Salmonella grows in the gut by changing the nutrient balance in the digestive system. It then survives by altering the gut nutrient environment, revealed the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
While it was previously known that Salmonella invades the small intestine, Andreas Baumler, Professor at the University of California-Davis, US, said that they found that the pathogen can enter the colon and spread.
Salmonella first enters the small intestine and causes inflammation in the gut lining. This disrupts the normal absorption of amino acids from food, creating an imbalance, enabling the pathogen to survive and multiply in the large intestine (colon), explained Baumler, also the lead author.
Inflammation in the small intestine helps salmonella derive nutrients that fuel its replication in the colon, he added.
In mice models, the researchers found that Salmonella infection led to less absorption of amino acids into the blood. Post the infection, two amino acids, lysine and ornithine, become more abundant in the gut and prevent the growth-inhibiting effects of SCFAs. This helps Salmonella to survive.
“Our findings show that Salmonella has a clever way of changing the gut’s nutrient environment to its advantage. By making it harder for the body to absorb amino acids in the ileum, Salmonella creates a more favourable environment for itself in the large intestine,” Baumler said.
The findings explain how the gut environment changes during inflammatory bowel disorders, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and could lead to better treatments for gut infections.
–IANS
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