Volume 24, No 1, Jan 2014
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)
Volume 24 Issue 1, January 2014: 5-6
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
An antibiotic-altered microbiota provides fuel for the enteric foe
Leah T Stiemsma1, Stuart E Turvey2 and Brett B Finlay1
1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
2Department of Pediatrics, Child & Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4H4
Correspondence: Brett B Finlay(bfinlay@msl.ubc.ca)
Antibiotic therapies disrupt the intestinal microbiota and render the host susceptible to enteric infections. A recent report by Ng et al. explores the ability of two intestinal pathogens (Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Clostridium difficile) to use this disruption to their advantage and consume host carbohydrates that would otherwise be unavailable in the presence of a normal gut microbiota.
10.1038/cr.2013.142
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