Though antibiotics are essential for fighting bacterial infection, they also make the body more prone to infection and diarrhoea, a new study has warned. Exactly how the resident “good” microbes in the gut protect against pathogens, such as Salmonella, and how antibiotic treatments foster growth of disease-causing microbes have been poorly understood, scientists said. Now, researchers from the University of California studied a mouse model and identified the chain of events that occur within the gut lumen after antibiotic treatment that allow “bad” bugs to flourish. The finding has profound…
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