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Are We Really Vastly Outnumbered? Revisiting the Ratio of Bacterial to Host Cells in Humans

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CELL
Volume 164, Issue 3, Pages 337-340

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.013

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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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