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Rebecca A. Drummond, and ,The Conversation

Antibiotics can hurt your gut microbiome, leading to a deadly fungal infection — study


Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, such as HIV or Covid-19. Our new study shows that antibiotics can cause immune system defects that increase the risk of dangerous fungal infections.

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