Studies are finding that a single course of antibiotics alters the gut microbiomes of healthy volunteers—and that it can take months or even years to recover the original species composition.

A study published July 8 in Nature Microbiology identified gut microbiome could be a more objective mechanism of diagnosis. Fecal samples from 1,627 children — autistic and non-autistic — aged ...

Disturbed gut flora during the first years of life is ... professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Science at the University of Florida, U.S., one of the researchers who led the ...

Oil spills lead to rapid changes in the composition of the natural bacterial flora; oil-degrading bacteria that are nearly undetectable before release of the oil can become dominant in its presence.