Shedding

I understand, but in some case there is enough shedding that it can contaminate the environment and put other at risk : I know at least one person, he was a butcher, who had to be put away for a few month because he was shedding enough bacteria ...

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All physically intact women do, unless they're pregnant. As you may know, the 'period' itself involves the shedding of the endometrial lining. This does NOT happen during (a healthy) pregnancy.

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... 24. Mukhopadhyaya K, Bhattacharya D, Chakraborty A, et al. Effect of banana powder (Musa sapeintus var. paradisiaca) on gastric mucosal shedding. J Ethnopharmacol 1987;21(1):11-19. 25. Wakabayashi H, Orihara T, Nakaya A, et al. Effect of Helicobacter pylori infection on gastric mucosal ...

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... anyone might have with the bacteria becoming "simpler": Much of the genetic material in animal's genomes is "junk" DNA, and shedding it doesn't change a thing. Mith is this the kind of DNA being shed by the bacteria?

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If you look at the evolution of lactic acid bacteria, you'll see that it's been shedding a lot of it's genes

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