Answer to Question #204608 in Biochemistry for mbali

Question #204608

The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can produce a bleeding diathesis characterized by hematomas, hematuria, melena, and bleeding from the gums by decreasing the normal gut flora and inducing a deficiency of a certain vitamin.

7.2.1 Which vitamin is deficient? Explain


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2021-06-12T22:29:01-0400

Vitamin K;

After animals have been fed antibiotics over a period of time, they retain the strains of bacteria which are resistant to antibiotics. These bacteria proliferate in the animal. Through interaction, the resistant bacteria are transmitted to the other animals, thus forming a colonization of antibiotic resistant bacteria.


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