Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2016 Jan 28;164(3):337-40.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.013.
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Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans
Ron Sender et al. Cell. 2016.
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Abstract
It is often presented as common knowledge that, in the human body, bacteria outnumber human cells by a ratio of at least 10:1. Revisiting the question, we find that the ratio is much closer to 1:1.
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