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The impact of a diet, no matter how rich it is, depends crucially on the host's resident gut microbes. Treatment of severe malnutrition with antibiotics may affect the composition of this microbiota to favour better use of nutrients.

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  1. Ruth E. Ley is in the Departments of Microbiology and of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.,

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Ley, R. When guests turn hostile. Nature 494, 437–438 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/494437a

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