Topic: Commensal Bacteria
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How does a human benefit from commensalism with bacteria living o...
The normal flora are filling in a niche (you wouldn't want the nastier type of bugs there. You need these friendly normal flora to hang around to keep them out). If you wipe the normal flora (the bacteria that aren't causing you any problem... Read More »
Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090522224741AAVHg8I
If you are feeding people bacteriophages to get rid of pathogenic...
One of the problems/good things about phages is that they are super-specific for a particular bacteria. The problem side of it, is that if you feed a sick person the wrong phage, nothing will happen to the pathogenic bacteria. Which means y... Read More »
Source: http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2009/08/viruses_are_going_to_save_our...
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