Bacteria’s mysterious viruses can fan flames of antibiotic damage

Your gut microbiome teems with bacteria-eating viruses that have longed baffled scientists. Using a new mouse model that can eliminate and revive these virus communities, Virginia Tech biologists discovered that the viruses can exacerbate collateral damage from antibiotics.

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there’s a frenzy of viruses called…

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