Do an Altered Gut Microbiota and an Associated Leaky Gut Affect COVID-19 Severity?

Using it for COVID, that lands between antibodies & anti-parasite drugs...

2018 Review that covers the influence of the gut microbiome on extra-intestinal infections, and parasites, and includes a chart "Gut microbes and probiotics in controlling parasitic infections":

Gut microbes as future therapeutics in treating inflammatory and infectious diseases: Lessons from recent findings https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2018.07.010 - https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/comments/9flzq7/gut_microbes_as_future_therapeutics_in_treating/

Review, Feb 2019: The human microbiota and infection prevention https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2019.28

Commensal Bacteria Impact a Protozoan’s Integration into Murine Gut Microbiota in a Dietary Nutrient-dependent Manner (Mar 2020) https://aem.asm.org/content/early/2020/03/16/AEM.00303-20

Gut microbiome confers resistance to cholera. Not everyone exposed to infectious diarrhea-causing bacteria gets sick. Interpersonal Gut Microbiome Variation Drives Susceptibility and Resistance to Cholera Infection (Jun 2020) https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/06/29/microbiome-confers-resistance-cholera

Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome (Aug 2020) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0592

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Gut microbiome's impacts on the immune system: http://HumanMicrobiome.info/ImmuneSystem

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