Antibiotics - Pervasive, Persistent Changes To Microbiota In Human Gut

This raises questions about the health effects of perturbations to the human-microbial symbiosis in the gut, such as may occur with Antibiotic treatment. Because specific microbial populations mediate many chemical transformations in the gut—and previous studies have related these processes to cancer and obesity, among other conditions—changes in the composition of the gut microbiota could have important, but as yet undiscovered, health effects.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118121941.htm

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