To determine:
The reason that the normal biota of GI tract seems to include a lot of disease-causing organisms.
Introduction:
Gastrointestinal tract or digestive tract is responsible for ingesting and digesting food, absorbing nutrients, and eliminating waste. The alimentary canal is a passage through which the food passes in our body. It includes mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, and anus.
To determine:
The reason that if microbiota are “normal” then why they are called potential pathogens.
Introduction:
The human body is occupied with various non-pathogenic normal microbiota, which prevents the entry of pathogenic microbes. For example, the normal microbiota of Lactobacillus and Staphylococcus among others prevents microbial infection in different body regions.
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