• Question: is there more bacteria in a particular part of ur body if there is what is it

    Asked by anon-195533 to Laura on 15 Jan 2019.
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      Laura Nolan answered on 15 Jan 2019:


      Yes! There are approximately 100 trillion bacterial cells in our guts – this is 10 times more than the total number of cells in our bodies and also hugely in excess of the number of bacterial cells in other parts of our bodies (e.g. mouth, nose, skin).

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