Meet Your Microbiome!

What you don’t know about your microbiome may kill you!!! …or just give you diarrhea.

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Sources:
http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-bust-myth-that-our-bodies-have-more-bacteria-than-human-cells-1.19136
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Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EscherichiaColi_NIAID.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Microbiome_Sites_(27058471125).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MYA3404_Ctropicalis_WT.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClostridiumDifficile.jpg

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