Good bacteria may expunge vancomycin-resistant bacteria from your gut
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Too much antibiotic can decimate the normal intestinal microbiota, which may never recover its former diversity. That, in turn, renders the GI tract vulnerable to being colonized by pathogens. Now researchers show that reintroducing normal microbial diversity largely eliminated vancomycin-resistant enterococci from the intestinal tracts of mice. The investigators showed further that the findings may apply to humans.