Ciprofloxacin exposure, gut microbiota, San Francisco adults
Temporal shotgun sequencing of the gut microbiota of healthy adults taking ciprofloxacin
1040 stool samples from 60 healthy adult volunteers given a 5-day ciprofloxacin course and 5 unexposed controls, longitudinally self-collected over 20 weeks in San Francisco, USA, to study antibiotic-driven gut microbiota and resistance evolution. machine-written summary
Antibiotic given as the study intervention (incl. eradication therapydesignnon_randomized_controlled · populationhealthy_control · Ciprofloxacin 500mg twice daily for 5 days vs unexposed controls
“took a short course of ciprofloxacin” — bioproject.description (study level; per-sample arms are in the intervention column below)
Samples at a glance
1 sampling locations · 1 country
Age
adult1,040
Condition
healthy_control1,040
Country
US1,040
Body site
primary1,040
Collected 2014–2016
Sequencing depth per sample · this project all projects
Sampling design and relatedness
longitudinal
65 of 65 people sampled more than once (1,040 samples; median 16, up to 16 per person) · follow-up median 5 mo (max 5 mo) · median interval between samples 1 d(time from collection dates).
Schedule stated by the source: “16 stool samples over 20 weeks, with daily sampling before, during, and immediately after antibiotic exposure”; stated follow-up 5 mo.
Each row is one person (36 shown of 65); dots are samples at days since that person's first sample.
Bacteroides 9.3%Roseburia 8.4%Faecalibacterium 8.0%Blautia_A 5.9%Phocaeicola 5.9%Prevotella 3.3%Bifidobacterium 3.2%Fusicatenibacter 2.6%Gemmiger 2.3%Alistipes 2.1%Collinsella 1.9%Lachnospira 1.8%not assigned to a genus 4.9%other genera 40.3%
Genera, mean relative abundance over 948 profiled gut samples of this project (Sandpiper SingleM profiles, GTDB R232; low-depth and non-metagenome profiles left out).
Brief antibiotic use drives human gut bacteria towards low-cost resistance. 2025PMID 40269166PMC12168174own_data
Details
Archive description
Sixty healthy adult volunteers took a short course of ciprofloxacin (500mg, twice daily, for 5 days) and self-collected 16 stool samples over 20 weeks, including daily sampling before, during, and immediately after the antibiotic exposure (960 samples in total). Additionally, five control subjects, who were not exposed to antibiotics, were sampled in a comparable fashion. This project generated deeply sequenced stool-derived DNA libraries to investigate the impacts of antibiotic exposure. Additional metadata tables can be found on https://purl.stanford.edu/rh071jg3250.
How this project entered the registry
Classified as human gut / stool shotgun DNA metagenome of adult by sonnet_x2 with confidence 0.85. Assay shotgun_dna.
hostrun.host_tax_id · “9606”
body siterun.scientific_name · “human gut metagenome”
life stagestudy.description · “Sixty healthy adult volunteers took a short course”
Evidence examples (one per field × route)
sample
field
value
route
conf.
source
quote
SAMN35299184
collection_date
2014-11-17
R1
0.90
biosample.attribute:collection_date
2014-11-17
SAMN35299184
country
US
R1
0.90
sample.attr.geo_loc_name
USA: San Francisco
SAMN35299184
health_condition
healthy_control
R3
0.70
paper.fulltext.methods
60 heathy adults living in the U.S. took ciprofloxacin
SAMN35299184
health_condition_detail
heathy adults
R3
0.70
paper.fulltext.methods
60 heathy adults living in the U.S. took ciprofloxacin
SAMN35299184
latitude
37.7631
R1
0.90
biosample.attribute:lat_lon
37.7631 N 122.4575 W
SAMN35299184
location_locality
San Francisco
R1
0.85
biosample.attribute:geo_loc_name
USA: San Francisco
SAMN35299184
location_region
California
R1
0.60
biosample.attribute:lat_lon
37.7631 N 122.4575 W
SAMN35299184
longitude
-122.4575
R1
0.90
biosample.attribute:lat_lon
37.7631 N 122.4575 W
SAMN35299184
subject_id
AAK
R1
0.85
sample.attr.host_subject_id
AAK
Sequencing
1,040 runs over 1,040 samples · mean 6.59 Gbp per run (median 5.29 Gbp, total 6,856.14 Gbp; 1,040 runs with a base count) · layout PAIRED 1,040 · platform ILLUMINA 1,040 · models Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (1,040) · 91% of runs with a Sandpiper profile · first public 2024-12-13 – 2024-12-29