Is a Common Antimicrobial Harmful to Gut Health? (IMAGE)

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Is a Common Antimicrobial Harmful to Gut Health?

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Exposure to triclosan (TCS) exacerbated the severity of colitis and inflammation in mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 30 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by H. Yang at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mass.; and colleagues was titled, "A common antimicrobial additive increases colonic inflammation and colitis-associated colon tumorigenesis in mice."

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H. Yang <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine </i>(2018)

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