Patent ID: 9603876
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: A61K,A61P

Claim:
1. A method for treating antibiotic-induced obesity by restoring one or more bacterial species depleted in a gastrointestinal microbiota of a mammal following an antibiotic treatment, wherein said mammal has developed or is at risk of developing obesity as a result of the depletion of said bacterial species in the gastrointestinal microbiota of said mammal, said method comprising: a) identifying one or more bacterial species which is statistically significantly diminished in a gastrointestinal microbiota sample obtained from the mammal following the antibiotic treatment as compared to a control gastrointestinal microbiota; b) culturing bacteria from the one or more bacterial species determined in step (a) to be statistically significantly diminished in said sample as compared to the control; and c) administering the cultured bacteria from step (b) to the mammal in an amount sufficient to increase the abundance of said bacteria in the gastrointestinal microbiota of said mammal and treat said antibiotic-induced obesity in said mammal.