Travelers' guts may be harboring new microbial hitchhikers, some of which bear gene sequences that make antibiotics less effective, according to a new study.
Immediately upon their return from their journeys, which were mostly taken for leisure, the same individuals provided an additional stool sample. Analyses of those samples showed many new microbiota arrivals along with their traveling human hosts, including 56 gene sequences associated withPeople can pick up new microbes in their gut in several ways, including by eating and drinking and using restroom facilities in the places they visit.
The study did not examine whether these acquired microbes are associated with the risk of developing human disease said study author Gautam Dantas, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. He and his colleagues also did not evaluate what happens to the new gut residents after travelers settle in back at home."We do not know how transient the acquisition is," Dantassaid.
That hypothetical outcome of compromised antibiotic effect remains to be demonstrated, Dantas said. He emphasized that the current findings suggest that international travel carries increased risk of taking the first step in that direction: picking up resistance companions.
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