The Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Sep 13, 2016

The surfaces of the human body inside and out, for example the skin, mouth and the intestines, are covered in millions of individual micro-organisms that don’t do us any harm. In fact they help to protect us from becoming infected with harmful microbes. They are known as the normal body flora.

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Kuleshov, Volodymyr, et al. “Synthetic long-read sequencing reveals intraspecies diversity in the human microbiome.” Nature biotechnology 34.1 (2016): 64-69.

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