Short-Term Antibiotic Treatment Has Differing Long-Term Impacts on the Human Throat and Gut Microbiome

Hedvig E. Jakobsson; Cecilia Jernberg; Anders F. Andersson; Maria Sjölund-Karlsson; Janet K. Jansson; Lars Engstrand

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009836

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Short-Term Antibiotic Treatment Has Differing Long-Term Impacts on the Human Throat and Gut Microbiome

Hedvig E. Jakobsson,

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Cecilia Jernberg,

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
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Anders F. Andersson,

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Limnology/Department of Ecology and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Maria Sjölund-Karlsson,

Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden
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Janet K. Jansson,

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Lars Engstrand

* E-mail: lars.engstrand@smi.se

Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Short-Term Antibiotic Treatment Has Differing Long-Term Impacts on the Human Throat and Gut Microbiome

Hedvig E. Jakobsson,
Cecilia Jernberg,
Anders F. Andersson,
Maria Sjölund-Karlsson,
Janet K. Jansson,
Lars Engstrand

Published: March 24, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009836

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really thought provoking finding

Posted by viks on 25 Mar 2010 at 08:42 GMT

This is an excellent manuscript clearly establishing the danger of non judicious antibiotic usage. The very fact that antibiotics could have such long ranging effects is really shocking. However, a larger patient size would have really added to this work.

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really thought provoking finding

Posted by viks on 25 Mar 2010 at 08:42 GMT