Background and Aim: There have been no trials comparing the prophylactic effect of oral quinolone and intravenous cephalosporin antibiotics and elucidating the predictive factors for the occurrence of ...

The community of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract, the gut microbiome, is healthier when certain species of microbes are present, and when it contains a diverse group of microorganisms. A ...

Infectious microbes have evolved sophisticated means to invade host cells, outwit the body’s defenses and cause disease. While researchers have tried to puzzle out the complicated interactions between ...

A low-fiber "Western diet" causes damage to the protective mucus barrier in the gut, and such damage can increase the risk of inflammation and infection. By studying the gut bacteria of people who ...

On the left, large intestine tissue from a healthy person; on the right, from a patient with active C. difficile infection. The white areas show the cells that line the intestine (epithelial cells).

A low-fiber “Western diet” causes damage to the protective mucus barrier in the gut, and such damage can increase the risk of inflammation and infection. By studying the gut bacteria of people who ...

Researchers have identified a new axis of host defense by studying what happens during enteric infection -- a term that encompasses all types of intestinal infections including so called 'stomach flu.

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have uncovered how a high-risk class of genetic vectors can efficiently spread antibiotic ...