Short-term antibiotic treatment has differing long-term impacts on the human throat and gut microbiome.

Antibiotic administration is the standard treatment for the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the main causative agent of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer. However, the long-term consequences of this treatment on the human indigenous microbiota are relatively unexplored. Here we studied short- a...

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Main Authors: Hedvig E Jakobsson, Cecilia Jernberg, Anders F Andersson, Maria Sjölund-Karlsson, Janet K Jansson, Lars Engstrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2844414?pdf=render