Microbes and healthful longevity

The popularity of hand sanitizer and antibiotics shows how we feel about bacteria: an enemy that’s bad for our health. Emerging data, however, suggest just the opposite - that exposures to certain kinds of bacteria are beneficial for a long and healthy life, at least in part by inhibiting a wasting...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erdman, Susan E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Division of Comparative Medicine
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Impact Journals, LLC 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103579