Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study - Devdiscourse

We found that antibiotics lowered the amount of these cytokines in the gut, which we think is part of the reason the antibiotic-treated mice couldnt control fungal infection in the intestines or stop the bacteria from escaping.Potential solution Some of these…

Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlyi… [+4480 chars]

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