Antibiotics, infections, and childhood obesity

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: forrestc@email.chop.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Christopher B Forrest et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;5(1):2-3.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30314-X. Epub 2016 Nov 1.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: forrestc@email.chop.edu.
² Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

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