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Bacteria: medullary issues to know about our body

A Dutch cloth merchant, named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, was the one who started the study on bacteria in the human body. What started as a hobby where, in addition to making microorganisms, the plate was removed from the mouth, moistened with rainwater and observed for a time what happened, it became an impressive result.As the merchant himself said, once set in motion one of his experiments, "the human body contains a large number of animals that move extravagantly. There are so many, that the number exceeds the inhabitants of a kingdom. "

Van Leeuwenhoek was known as the "father of microbiology" who, in addition, stood out for being the first to execute observations and discoveries with microscopes whose manufacture he himself perfected.

Almost 150 Of Our Genes May Have Come From Microbes

We know that our bodies are absolutely teeming with microbes. In the average healthy human, bacterial cells outnumber our own cells 10 to 1. And let’s not forget about viruses; some studies have suggested that the number of viral particles in our body is greater than the number of human and bacterial cells combined. But what about our genomes? It turns out that our DNA, too, is less human than…