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In this study, we analyzed the abundance and diversity of microbiota of the jejunum and cecum of a dual-purpose indigenous Horro chicken following\n                    <jats:italic>Eimeria maxima<\/jats:italic>\n                    infection. We compared microbial abundance, composition, and diversity at the 4- and 7- days post-infection using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We obtained, on average, 147,742 and 132,986 high-quality sequences per sample for jejunum and cecum content, respectively. Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Campilobacterota and Bacteroidota were the major microbial phylum detected in the jejunum content. Firmicutes were the dominant phylum for 4- and 7-days jejunum control groups accounting for (&amp;gt;60% of the sequences). In the infected group Campilobacterota was the dominant phylum in the jejunum (&amp;gt; 24% of sequences) at 4-and 7-days post-infection groups, while Proteobacteria was predominant at 4- and 7-days post-infection of the cecum (&amp;gt; 40% of the sequences). The microbial genus\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Helicobacter<\/jats:italic>\n                    were found in the jejunum, while\n                    <jats:italic>Alistipes<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic>Barnesiella<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Faecalibacterium<\/jats:italic>\n                    were detected in the cecum. In the jejunum,\n                    <jats:italic>Helicobacter<\/jats:italic>\n                    was dominant at 4 -and-7 days post-infection (\u226524%), and\n                    <jats:italic>Lactobacillus<\/jats:italic>\n                    was dominant at 4 -and 7- days in the control group (&amp;gt; 50%). In 4- and 7-days post-infection,\n                    <jats:italic>Alistipes<\/jats:italic>\n                    genus was the more prevalent (&amp;gt; 38%) in the cecum. Thus, clear differences were observed in the bacterial microbiota distribution and abundance between the jejunum and cecum, as well as between infected and control groups for both tissues. The results indicate that chicken intestinal microbial imbalance (dysbiosis) is associated with\n                    <jats:italic>Eimeria<\/jats:italic>\n                    parasite infection and will likely affect the host-microbial non-pathogenic and pathogenic molecular interactions.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fimmu.2022.994224","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,5]],"date-time":"2022-09-05T01:36:52Z","timestamp":1662341812000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":34,"title":["Influence of Eimeria maxima coccidia infection on gut microbiome diversity and composition of the jejunum and cecum of indigenous 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