Antibiotics have long-term impacts on gut flora

Monday, November 1, 2010 - 10:30 in Health & Medicine

Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to two years after treatment, say scientists writing in the latest issue of Microbiology,...

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