Man and Microbe: Fraternizing with the frenemy
Journal Title: Medical Journal Armed Forces - Year 2019, Vol 75, Issue 1
Abstract
Man's fate has been intricately intertwined with that of microbes since the beginning of his existence. Microbes are possibly our best friends. We share an exceptional symbiotic relationship with them, with each one of us harbouring almost 10e100 trillion microbiota in our bodies which forms about 10% of our body weight.1 They live on our body surfaces (gut, oral cavity, vagina, skin, etc), and also some of the really smart bacteria/archea merged with our cells about 1.5 billion years ago and became part of us.2 Today, they handle the energy economy in each of our cell efficiently and go by the name of mitochondria.3
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Shankar Subramanian
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