Do antibiotics disrupt the neurological development of infants?
Antibiotics are often essential to treating certain infections from an early age. But by creating microbiota imbalances, might they influence the development of a child’s nervous system and contribute to disorders such as autism?
A recent experimental study1 on mice provides the first – tentative – elements of an answer.

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Created
22 November 2021
Updated
20 December 2021