Antibiotic Treatment Increased Risk for Type 1 Diabetes in Animal Study (IMAGE)

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Antibiotic Treatment Increased Risk for Type 1 Diabetes in Animal Study

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This image is graph of the relationships between groups of bacterial species called OTUs found to occur together in mice either treated with antibiotics or not. This shows that antibiotic-treated mice (red) have a very different, and less diverse, set of OTUs than the control mice (blue).

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Courtesy of <i>Nature Microbiology</i>

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