Antibiotics disrupt gut flora in infants: Recovery still incomplete after eight weeks
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Eight weeks after antibiotic treatment of infants, the diversity of gastrointestinal flora remained diminished, although the number of individual bacteria was back to normal, according to a new paper. Additionally, the potentially disease-causing Proteobacteria were now the dominant population in the treated infants.