Does their chemistry or bacterial composition change, leaving them more vulnerable to pathogens?
Thus, there are no absolute rules about bacterial composition or structure, and there are many exceptions to any general statement.
The investigators resampled subjects three times during the course of the study to see if the bacterial composition of their bodies was stable, generating 11,174 samples.
Thus, the bacterial composition of the oral cavity is suspected to play an important role in the development of caries and gum disease.
Today scientists are investigating ways to influence or alter the bacterial composition of the oral cavity for the prevention and treatment of tooth decay.
Furthermore, bacterial composition was very different between the three samples.
The overall bacterial composition and the distribution of each group in the different treatments were similar.
In conclusion, plantation changes bacterial composition between natural hardwood forest and coniferous plantations.
The bacterial composition of the stress group was dominated by Lachnospiraceae, Prevotellaceae, S24-7 and Ruminococcaceae.
Changes in bacterial composition, in turn, could alter functional redundancy (Allison and Martiny 2008).
Fig. 5 Redundancy analysis (RDA) of soil bacterial composition and soil properties.
