Antibiotic Treatment Alters the Colonic Mucus Layer and Predisposes the Host to Exacerbated Citrobacter rodentium-Induced Colitis

Antibiotics are often used in the clinic to treat bacterial infections, but the effects of these drugs on microbiota composition and on intestinal immunity are poorly understood. Citrobacter rodentium was used as a model enteric pathogen to investigate the effect of microbial perturbation on intesti...

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Main Authors: Wlodarska, M., Willing, B., Keeney, K. M., Menendez, A., Bergstrom, K. S., Gill, N., Russell, S. L., Vallance, B. A., Finlay, B. B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2011
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Host Response and Inflammation
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067531/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21321077
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01104-10
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