From medical literature I have added several hundred drugs and their likely impact on the microbiome. A common problem with CFS patients is that they are only aware of some trademark name and not the standard scientific name.
I have started (it’s a long process) adding the common or trademark names to various drugs — for example Antivirals:
Now becomes
This process will likely take a few weeks to complete.
Antivirals and CFS
I have posted about this in the past ,”Valganciclovir antiviral and CFS[2016]” and “Valacyclovir, EBV and CFS [2016]”.
I decided to look at the microbiome shifts seen with the valacyclovir hydrochloride antiviral, And was quite surprise to see a high number of bacteria taxonomy are reduced — which may account for the success reported in the above post “All patients were treated subsequently with valacyclovir, with 93% having a positive response” [2014]. The other antiviral, Valcyte or Valganciclovir, is not in my sources.
So, the question must be asked — was it’s antiviral nature OR microbiome modification nature that causes the reported improvement?
Taxonomy | Rank | Effect |
Bacteroidaceae | family | Decreases |
Bifidobacteriaceae | family | Decreases |
Clostridiaceae | family | Decreases |
Coriobacteriaceae | family | Decreases |
Desulfovibrionaceae | family | Decreases |
Enterobacteriaceae | family | Decreases |
Eubacteriaceae | family | Decreases |
Fusobacteriaceae | family | Decreases |
Lachnospiraceae | family | Decreases |
Peptostreptococcaceae | family | Decreases |
Porphyromonadaceae | family | Decreases |
Prevotellaceae | family | Decreases |
Ruminococcaceae | family | Decreases |
Streptococcaceae | family | Decreases |
Veillonellaceae | family | Decreases |
Verrucomicrobiaceae | family | Decreases |
Akkermansia | genus | Decreases |
Bacteroides | genus | Decreases |
Bifidobacterium | genus | Decreases |
Bilophila | genus | Decreases |
Blautia | genus | Decreases |
Clostridium | genus | Decreases |
Collinsella | genus | Decreases |
Coprococcus | genus | Decreases |
Dorea | genus | Decreases |
Eggerthella | genus | Decreases |
Escherichia | genus | Decreases |
Eubacterium | genus | Decreases |
Fusobacterium | genus | Decreases |
Odoribacter | genus | Decreases |
Parabacteroides | genus | Decreases |
Peptoclostridium | genus | Decreases |
Prevotella | genus | Decreases |
Roseburia | genus | Decreases |
Ruminococcus | genus | Decreases |
Streptococcus | genus | Decreases |
Veillonella | genus | Decreases |
Akkermansia muciniphila | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides caccae | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides fragilis | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides ovatus | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides uniformis | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides vulgatus | species | Decreases |
Bacteroides xylanisolvens | species | Decreases |
Bifidobacterium adolescentis | species | Decreases |
Bifidobacterium longum | species | Decreases |
Bilophila wadsworthia | species | Decreases |
Clostridium perfringens | species | Decreases |
Collinsella aerofaciens | species | Decreases |
Dorea formicigenerans | species | Decreases |
Eggerthella lenta | species | Decreases |
Escherichia coli | species | Decreases |
Fusobacterium nucleatum | species | Decreases |
Lactobacillus paracasei | species | Decreases |
Odoribacter splanchnicus | species | Decreases |
Parabacteroides distasonis | species | Decreases |
Parabacteroides merdae | species | Decreases |
Peptoclostridium difficile | species | Decreases |
Roseburia hominis | species | Decreases |
Roseburia intestinalis | species | Decreases |
Streptococcus parasanguinis | species | Decreases |
Streptococcus salivarius | species | Decreases |
Veillonella parvula | species | Decreases |
Lactobacillus casei group | species_group | Decreases |