antibiotics
Scientific research
A recent study published in Current Biology highlights how microbiotas from the past could be used to monitor environmental changes and it provides an example for how policies to control…
Scientific research
The influence of cat ownership on gut microbiota function may affect the health of the owner. A new study published in PlosOne claims.
Scientific research
A new study published in Genome Medicine suggests that international travel poses a high risk by favoring the global spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Gastroenterology
A new study published in Cell Host & Microbe illustrates how different dispersal strategies can allow bacteria to persist in the human gut.
Gastroenterology, Nutrition
A high-fat diet is associated with changes in the gut microbiota and microbial metabolites. These changes seem impair antibiotic efficacy.
Pediatrics
A new study published in Cell Host & Microbe claims that the infant gut is home to bacteria that harbor hundreds of antibiotic-resistance genes.
Gastroenterology
The evolutionary history of the human microbiota could help to understand the role of present-day gut microbes in health and disease.
Gastroenterology
Gut bacteria from people in industrialized countries exchange genes at much higher rates than bacteria from people living in non-industrialized societies.
Gastroenterology
The microbial communities inhabiting the gut have been shown to change in ways that influence the development of disease through blood metabolites.
Gastroenterology
A targeted decontamination could be a strategy to control the spreading of carbapenem-resistance plasmids both amoung patients and within patients.