By Hidaya Aliouche, B.Sc. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Antibiotic treatment alters the composition and magnitude of got microbiota species. Overall, antibiotics reduce species’ diversity and include the loss of key functional taxa, resulting in shifts in metabolism, increasing the susceptibility of the gut to colonization, and the stimulation of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The therapeutic...
By Hidaya Aliouche, B.Sc. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Antibiotic treatment alters the composition and magnitude of got microbiota species. Overall, antibiotics reduce species’ diversity and include the loss of key functional taxa, resulting in shifts in metabolism, increasing the susceptibility of the gut to colonization, and the stimulation of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The therapeutic...
