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Number of prokaryotes in human colon world-wide

Value	3.9E+23 cell
Organism	prokaryote
Reference	William B. Whitman,*† David C. Coleman,‡ and William J. Wiebe. Prokaryotes: The unseen majority. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 June 9 95(12): 6578–6583. p.6580 table 1PubMed ID9618454
Primary Source	Van Houte J, Gibbons RJ. Studies of the cultivable flora of normal human feces. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek. 1966 32(2):212-22. AND Cummings, J. H., Banwell, J. G., Segal, I., Coleman, N., Englyst, H. N. & Macfarlane, G. T. (1990) Gastroenterology 98, A408.PubMed ID5296851
Entered by	Mike Springer
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