'Good' bacteria keep immune system primed to fight future infections

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 10:42 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have long pondered the seeming contradiction that taking broad-spectrum antibiotics over a long period of time can lead to severe secondary bacterial infections. Now researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine may have figured out why.

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