Critically ill ICU patients lose almost all of their gut microbes and the ones left aren’t good
– They found that patients with stays longer than a month had only one to four types of microbes in their gut, as measured from fecal samples—compared to about 40 different types found in healthy volunteers.
* published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology SEP 2014
– http://healthresearchreport.me/2014/09/25/critically-ill-icu-patients-lose-almost-all-of-their-gut-microbes-and-the-ones-left-arent-good/
Critically ill ICU patients lose almost all of their gut microbes and the ones left aren’t good
ByRalph Turchiano
Sep 27, 2014
By Ralph Turchiano
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