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Frequent antibiotic use significantly alters the developing gut microbiota by rapidly changing its composition.

These rapid “microbiome shifts” are well documented in dynamic populations such as adults with inflammatory bowel disease and traveler’s diarrhea
Gibson et al. 2016 Nat. Microbiol. 1: 16024
Lloyd-Price et al. 2019
Boolchandani et al. 2022 Nat. Commun. 13: 7485
Schwartz et al. 2023 Sci. Transl. Med. 15: eadg5562

Antibiotics lead to increased bacteriophage activation in the [gut microbiota](brain://FMSaW_VjYE-eATab2yQVNA/Gu…