A course of antibiotics is, in biological terms, similar to a forest fire. Although they are necessary to fight pathogenic bacterial infections, most are not selective and also eliminate your beneficial bacteria, drastically reducing the diversity of the ecosystem.
After a treatment, the microbiome can take months (or even years) to recover completely, and in some cases, certain species may never reappear. That is why, at Vivabioma we include the analysis of the Resistome, which detects the antibiotic resistance genes present in your sample. This allows you to understand how your microbiota has responded to past treatments and how that information can help you manage bacterial resistance in the future.