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Old Mon Jan 30, 2012, 12:20 PM
Lbrown Lbrown is offline
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I would doubt that blood is sterile. In fact, the human genome project showed a ratio of 10:1 bacterial cells to human cells in the human body. All those bacteria have to live somewhere.

Page 128 of this magazine article: "Growing the Recalcitrant": http://www.theasm.org.au/uploads/pdf/MA_Sept_07.pdf

http://www.human-microbiome.org/file...mendations.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Metagenomics-H.../dp/1441970886

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