Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans.
By R. Sender, Shai Fuchs, Ron Milo. Cell, 2016
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Subfields: Complementary and alternative medicine, Food Science, Molecular Biology
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