Effect of β-lactam antibiotics on the gut microbiota of term neonates

• Main Authors: Hongdan Gu (Author), Enfu Tao (Author), Yijia Fan (Author), Gao Long (Author), Xinyi Jia (Author), Tianming Yuan (Author), Lihua Chen (Author), Xiaoli Shu (Author), Wei Zheng (Author), Mizu Jiang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract β-Lactam antibiotics are a class of antibiotics commonly used to treat bacterial infections. However, the effects of β-lactam antibiotics on term neonatal intestinal flora have not been fully elucidated. Hospitalized full-term newborns receiving β-lactam antibiotics formed the antibiotic gr...