In Western world, the incidence of autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases has been significantly increasing and also the use of non-antibiotic drugs for their treatment. Scientists at EMBL and Cambridge University elucidate how common drugs accumulate in gut bacteria and potentially reduce medication’s effectiveness.
Novel fecal microbiota associations with common diseases and medications revealed in the TwinsUK cohort
16 Aug 2018by Andreu Prados
A new cross-sectional study has identified new fecal microbiota associations with 17 diseases and 19 prescription drugs, together with shared associations between them.