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Gut Microbiota Interspecies Interactions may Impact the Efficacy of Antibiotics Against C. Difficile

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that can infect the large intestine, with symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening colon damage.

12 May 2023

Antibiotics can affect gut microbiomes distinctly, a new study reveals

Scientists at Cedars-Sinai discovered that antibiotics have sex-specific effects on the gut microbiome makeup of male and female laboratory rats in a new study.

22 Jul 2022

Finding better treatments to eradicate infection caused by H. pylori bacterium

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide, affecting more than 40 % of the population and is one of the causes of digestive symptoms, such as epigastric discomfort, heaviness or bloating of the stomach, or of other more serious diseases, such as the development of gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastric lymphoma or gastric cancer.

30 Nov 2021