Special Microbiome Issue (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Special Microbiome Issue (1 of 2)

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Antibiotic treatment eliminates many commensal bacterial species from the gut lumen and reduces antimicrobial defenses. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 29, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.G. Pamer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Resurrecting the intestinal microbiota to combat antibiotic-resistant pathogens."

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Pamer <i>et al. / Science</i> (2016)

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