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Scientists Just Overturned a 100-Year-Old Belief About Bacteria in the Lungs

New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs. More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the human body, forming microbiomes in the gut, mouth, lungs, skin, and urogenital tract.

Scientists Just Overturned a 100-Year-Old Belief About Bacteria in the Lungs

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New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs.

More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the human body, forming microbiomes in the gut, mouth, lungs, skin, and urogenital tract.

Researchers increasingly recognize that these microbial communities are connected to both health and disease, but much about what individual microbes do [...]

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New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs. More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the human body, forming microbiomes in the gut, mouth, lungs, skin, and urogenital tract. Researchers increasingly recognize that these microbial communities are connected to both health and disease, but much about what individual microbes do [...]

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