Application Question L. You are told that you must be placed on a high dose of a

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Application Question L. You are told that you must be placed on a high dose of a broad-spectrum antibiotic to treat a serious infection. You re concerned that this therapy will seriously disrupt your intestinal microbiota, possibly leading to intestinal disease such as caused by Clostridium difficile. In advance of the treatment, what might you do to ensure that your normal intestinal microbiota is restored after extended antibiotic therapy? Discuss two ways this restoration could be accomplished, one that would return your exact microbiota and one that would return some representative species.

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Two ways to restore the intestinal microbiota are:

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