Antibiotics in premature babies: Cause long-lasting damage to gut microbiome
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Nearly all premature babies receive antibiotics in their first weeks of life to ward off or treat potentially deadly bacterial infections. Such drugs are lifesavers, but they also cause long-lasting collateral damage to the developing microbial communities in the babies' intestinal tracts, according to research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. A ["]
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