Alterations in intestinal microbiota of elderly irish subjects post-antibiotic therapy

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 214-221

  O'Sullivan, Órla ^a   Coakley, Mairéad ^a,b   Lakshminarayanan, Bhuvaneswari ^a,b   Conde, Susana ^b   Claesson, Marcus J ^b,c   Cusack, Siobhán ^b   Fitzgerald, Anthony P ^b   O'Toole, Paul W ^b,c   Stanton, Catherine ^a,c   Ross, R Paul ^a,c  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing; Antibiotics; Culturable; Unculturable

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EURYARCHAEOTA; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; IRELAND; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; LACTOBACILLUS; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NURSING CARE; REHABILITATION CENTER; WEISSELLA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; METAGENOME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871240769     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks348     Document Type: Article

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