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This is why the doctors/scientists in the article recommended that donors be screened first. But the more I discover about medicine and biology, the more I rea
by fractallyte 12y ago
This is why the doctors/scientists in the article recommended that donors be screened first.
But the more I discover about medicine and biology, the more I realize how much we still don't know. Hundreds of types of bacteria in a typical stool sample? This is amazing! Whole biomes await study... from internal gut bacteria (very small scale), to microbial colonies (regional or national scale) that we use for fermentation. Exciting!
- danieltillett 12y agoWe actually don't know how many bacteria live in the human gut, but may be as many as 100,000 different species although around 1000 dominate. One of the difficulties with estimating how many species are present is that it is hard to know if a particular species is a member of the "native" gut microflora or just passing through.