How could antibiotics designed to stop narrowly defined categories of infectious

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How could antibiotics designed to stop narrowly defined categories of infectious microbes be used to discover which organisms are mutualists and which are parasites or commensals in the termite gut? 5. Human beings carry a diverse community of bacterial species in their large intestine, including Escherichia coli strains that rarely cause disease in healthy people. The normal bacterial flora outcompete any foreign bacterial species passing through the system. Based on these facts, is it understandable that antibiotics taken for a sore throat might cause intestinal discomfort?

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Ans 4 :

The micoorganisms can be isolated selectively and the changes should be observed in them using appropriate antibiotics.

The biochemical data is obtained , which can be then analysed and combined with certain kniwn chemical pathways to give the appropriate findings and results.

This data gives a clear understanding and demarcation of the microbes which ones are mutualists , commensals or parasites.

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