Okay so of course everyone know what E-coli is, it’s a bacteria that can cause food poisoning. But a few years ago in biology class I realized it’s also a microbe in our gut system. So how does something that’s dangerous live inside our gut without affecting us?
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Strains that cause diseases have evolved to produce toxins or invade through intestinal lining, unlike e coli that, along many other bacteria, lives in our digestive tract without harm. Some of notable ones are enteropathogenic, enterotoxigenic, enterohaemorrhagic etc.
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