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Disturbance of the Intestinal Ecosystem by Antimicrobial Agents

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Drug-Induced Injury to the Digestive System

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Antibiotics are the most widely used class of drugs and differ from other pharmacological agents commonly used for therapy in that their action is addressed to cells not belonging to human body, for example, bacteria, while other drugs acts on cells of the human body. This means that among the huge number of substances with antimicrobial activity, only those that have specific affinity for micro-organisms and not for human cells are chosen for therapy.

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Braga, P.C. (1993). Disturbance of the Intestinal Ecosystem by Antimicrobial Agents. In: Drug-Induced Injury to the Digestive System. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2220-1_8

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