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That rather speaks against it being a microbiome - it could just be incidental contamination the body is in the process of cleaning up. To be a microbiome I would expect to a diverse, well-adapted quorum of species that find some type of symbioses.

Absent that evidence, well biology is probability - something is always happening somewhere just by chance and statistics, but it doesn't make it a feature.



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