title: Finding a sugary foothold: how antibiotics pave the way for enteric pathogens.
abstract: Antibiotic therapy predisposes the host to infections with human enteropathogens. In a recent study, Ng et al. (2013) demonstrate that antibiotic-mediated disruption of the microbial food web gives rise to free microbiota-liberated monosaccharides in the gut, which can promote growth of enteropathogenic bacteria.
authors.affiliation: Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute, LMU Munich, Pettenkoferstrasse 9a, 80336 Munich, Germany; German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. Electronic address: stecher@mvp.uni-muenchen.de.
authors.forename: Bärbel
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stecher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism / Q000187:drug effects*; D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000502:physiology*; D004761:Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents