Obesity in the United States - dysbiosis from exposure to low-dose antibiotics?

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Riley, Lee W ^a   Raphael, Eva ^a   Faerstein, Eduardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal husbandry; Antibiotic residues; CAFOs; Food chain; Intestinal microbiota; Obesity; Polysaccharide diet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977907821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00069     Document Type: Article

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