According
to a Duke Health study published January 19 in the Journal of Infectious
Diseases, a person's resistance to certain germs, specifically E. coli
bacteria, could come down to their very DNA.
Researchers
exposed 30 healthy adults to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, one of the world's leading causes of
bacteria-induced diarrhea and a common cause of so-called 'traveler's
diarrhea,' which often requires treatment with antibiotics.
Among
the thousands of genes that distinguished the two groups, there were
significant differences in the activity of 29 immune-related genes that could
predict who would go on to become sick and those who would remain well.
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