Critically ill ICU patients lose almost all of their gut microbes and the ones left aren’t good

23 septiembre 2014

After a long stay in the Intensive Care Unit only a handful of pathogenic microbe species remain behind in patients’ intestines, a study has shown. The team of researchers tested these remaining pathogens and discovered that some can become deadly when provoked by conditions that mimic the body’s stress response to illness.
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