A patient’s microbiome – the bacterial residents that inhabit the skin, mouth and gastrointestinal tract – can face a host of insults while battling an illness or infection. The microbial damage that ensues may significantly impair that patient’s survival and recovery, according to experts at the 2016 Clinical Nutrition Week, hosted by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.)

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