Gut microbiota in pregnancy, please don't change me now.

Pregnancy predisposes women to develop severe sepsis. However, the mechanisms regulating this remain unclear. In this issue of Immunity, Chen et al. describe the critical role of gut dysbiosis during pregnancy in driving excessive macrophage pyroptosis, increasing susceptibility to sepsis.
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