Recovery of gut microbiota following meropenem treatment in a systemic E. coli infection model

we induced a systemic E. coli infection in seventy Balb/c mice, which were thendivided into infected and control groups, treated or not with meropenem. The animalswere evaluated at three time points (3 hours, five days of treatment, and 30 days post-treatment). Intestinal, lung, blood, and peritoneal lavage samples were collected foranalysis.