Talk:Intestinal Microflora and Antibiotic Resistance

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I appreciate how your topic is extremely relevant and important to human health. It was also good that you assessed what the literature said instead of just accepting it and writing it down. A few suggestions: near the beginning you used the word "mucosol"--i think this was a typo for "mucosal"? Also, the layout in Functions of Intestinal Microflora looks a little funny, so you may want to adjust the paragraph (unless this was intentional). As for pictures, I like what you have so far, but I personally have an easier time if they are enlarged so we don't have to click through them, but this is up to you. Also, you may want to add some figures (not necessarily from research articles) in the sections with no figures, just to make the page even more visually appealing. The scanning electron micrograph of the gut is great though.

Overall, your writing is very clear and easy to follow. There's nothing major to edit, but you may find some minor things to edit once you read it over. Good job!

I believe that your topic is very relevant to our current society. I find that in a world where antibiotics are constantly being used we need to understand the effects our actions are having on our bodies. I think you brought some very interesting thoughts concerning the need of microbes in the gut to be antibiotic-resistant in order to survive antibiotics used by humans. Specifically, I find your link to the “cocktail treatment” used to treat Helicobacter pylori very relevant. We need to know just how much we are inducing antibiotic resistance in our guts. I believe your article flows very well from one section to the next. I do think that your figures could be a little larger. Some figures that are not related to data might also liven up your page. Overall, this is very well written with seemingly very few errors. Excellent work!