📌 In 75% of cases where the same species was detected in both oral and gut environments of the same individual, it was the same strain, pointing to saliva-mediated oral-to-gut transmission as a dominant mechanism
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Heidrich and colleagues analyzed paired oral and fecal metagenomes to map the inter-connectedness
of human microbiomes across body sites and cohabitants. The work reveals high inter-personal
transmiss...
