Among Trillions of Microbes in the Gut, a Few Are Special - Scientific American - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 26 Feb 15But when Sokol did a comparative DNA analysis of diseased sections of intestine surgically removed from the patients, he observed a relative depletion of just one common bacterium, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. Rather than "bad" microbes prompting disease, he wondered, could a single "good" microbe prevent disease?