Succession in the gut microbiome following antibiotic and antibody therapies for Clostridium difficile.

Antibiotic disruption of the intestinal microbiota may cause susceptibility to pathogens that is resolved by progressive bacterial outgrowth and colonization. Succession is central to ecological theory but not widely documented in studies of the vertebrate microbiome. Here, we study succession in th...

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Main Authors: Gregory L Peterfreund, Lee E Vandivier, Rohini Sinha, Andre J Marozsan, William C Olson, Jun Zhu, Frederic D Bushman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3468616?pdf=render