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Contact: Geoff Spencer
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NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute

Entercoccus Feacalis

Caption: The bacterium, Entercoccus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project.

Credit: US Department of Agriculture

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