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Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study

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par Rebecca A. Drummond, Fellow, Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham

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. Our new study shows that antibiotics can cause immune system defects that increase the risk of dangerous fungal infections.
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