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Mouth Bacteria Have Been Linked to Severe Forms of Inflammatory Bowel Disease – ScienceAlert

The human body is a league of nations for an unfathomable variety of microbes, kept in check by complex relationships with our immune system and carefully crafted…

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The human body is a league of nations for an unfathomable variety of microbes, kept in check by complex relationships with our immune system and carefully crafted truces with each other.
Every now and then members of that microscopic community develop a taste for invasion, causing chaos as they stream across borders. For people with severe inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a strain of oral bacteria could be doing just that.
A genetic analysis of more than a dozen strains of one common bacterium,…

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