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inimino on April 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Color-Changing Poop to Diagnose Bowel Problems

You already have e. coli in your gut, adding some with a diagnostic feature is not changing your biome any more than eating a yogurt.

19eightyfour on April 7, 2017 [–]

It's hard to know now if such diagnostic reactions, and vectors that produce them shall be inert to a biome. So the above statement misrepresents the risk.

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