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Effects of short- and long-course antibiotics on the lower intestinal microbiome as they relate to traveller’s diarrhea
16 Nov 2016
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Antibiotics have profound and lasting effects on the lower intestinal (gut) microbiome that can both promote resistance and increase susceptibility to colonization and infection; knowledge of these changes is important to the prevention and treatment of traveler's diarrhea. METHODS: Recent data from epidemiologic and modern metagenomics studies were reviewed in regard to how such findings could inform...
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