Antibiotics and Probiotics: What Is the Effect on the Gut?

Dear Colleagues,

Antibiotics are medicines that destroy or slow down the growth of bacteria. Antibiotic use can have several negative effects on gut microbiota, including reduced species diversity and the loss of key functional taxa, resulting in shifts in metabolism and increasing the susceptibility of the gut to colonization and the stimulation of bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Growing evidence indicates that probiotics may restore the composition of the gut microbiome and introduce beneficial functions to gut microbial communities, resulting in the amelioration or prevention of gut inflammation and other intestinal or systemic disease phenotypes.

The Special Issue of Antibiotics aims to collect manuscript submissions that further our understanding of the effects of antibiotics and probiotics on the gut of men and domestic animals.

Prof. Dr. Vasco Azevedo
Dr. Flávia Figueira Aburjaile
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Antibiotics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• antibiotics
• probiotics
• gut health
• gut microbiota
• dysbiosis