Unlikely Partnership Inside Every Breastfed Baby’s Gut
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Escherichia coli has a reputation problem. Pull up any bacteriology textbook and you’ll find it filed under pathogens, a microbe capable of hospitalising infants and contaminating water supplies. Yet in the gut of nearly every healthy breastfed baby, E. coli sits quietly at low abundance, outnumbered a hundredfold by Bifidobacterium, and has apparently been doing so for as long as humans have been nursing their young. Nobody could quite explain why. A new study published in Nature Communic
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