The human microbiome is the full array of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoans, and viruses, that live on and in humans, contributing to the genetic portrait or metagenome of a human. Bacteria are by far the most numerous members of the human microbiome: the bacterial population alone is estimated at between 75 trillion and 200 trillion individual organisms.
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