Antibiotics create a shift from mutualism to competition in human gut communities with a longer-lasting impact on fungi than bacteria.
Bastian SeelbinderJiarui ChenSascha BrunkeRuben Vazquez-UribeRakesh SanthamanAnne-Christin MeyerFelipe Senne de Oliveira LinoKa-Fai ChanDaniel LoosLejla ImamovicChi-Ching TsangRex Pui-Kin LamSiddharth SridharKang KangBernhard HubePatrick Chiu-Yat WooMorten Otto Alexander SommerGianni PanagiotouPublished in: Microbiome (2020)
We demonstrated that antibacterial drugs have long-term influence on the human gut mycobiome. While bacterial communities recovered mostly 30-days post antibacterial treatment, the fungal community was shifted from mutualism towards competition. Video abstract.