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12 Apr, 2008

Gut bacteria species becoming one

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Chicken farms may be, in part, responsible for the rapid merging of two different Campylobacter bacteria species.Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli, as the intestinal organisms are known, aren’t just consummating their microscopic love by exchanging genes — they’re merging into a single species, scientists say.


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