ICU Patients Suffer Loss Of Gut Bacteria Diversity

In a new study, the sequence analyses of stool samples from ICU patients at University of Chicago hospitals revealed profound disruptions of the gut microbiome when compared to healthy patients.

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"This study gives clinicians important information that they are to get the gut back to health as fast as they can," said Mark Lyte, a neuroendocrinologist at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. "The quicker they can re-establish normal communities in the gut, the better it will be for the patient prognosis."

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