Don't mess with my microbiota


A new study out in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy suggests that colonic microbiota takes a good long time to reconstitute. In this multicenter case-control study, the risk for C. difficile disease was increased for 3 months after receipt of antibiotics. I can barely remember what I had for dinner two nights ago, so I'd be a poor historian if somebody was interviewing me that long after I completed an unnecessary antibiotic course for a viral upper respiratory tract infection.

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