Gut bacteria may predict risk of life-threatening infections following chemo

Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 15:10 in Health & Medicine

A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota and Nantes University Hospital in France shows that the bacteria in people’s gut may predict their risk of life-threatening blood infections following high-dose chemotherapy. The study was published today in Genome Medicine, a peer-reviewed open access journal. About 20,000 cancer patients receive high-dose chemotherapy […]

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