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antibiotics for bowel infection :: Article Creator Antibiotics Are 'avoidable Trigger' For Bowel Disease Scientists at The University of Manchester have shown for the first time how antibiotics can predispose the gut to avoidable infections that trigger bowel disease in mice. The team, led by Dr Elizabeth Mann, also showed that substances derived from fibre prevent this damage to the gut, suggesting a high fibre diet could be useful when taken during and after a course of antibiotics. The research is to be published in Science Translational Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council. They tested broad spectrum antibiotics on mice to assess their impact on the gut's microbiota, the community of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. After a week long course of antibiotics, a harmful immune reaction started that lasted at least 2 months, an equivalent, say the researchers, of many years in...