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Several of our readings in past weeks have been on the effectson health of a microbiota shift. One example is the study ofmalnourished Malawian twins who had developed kwashiorkor. CanKoch's postulates be extended to cover a community of microbes?Explain which of Koch's postulates were fulfilled and which wereviolated in this study. What experiment(s) did the scientists do tofulfill Koch's third postulate?

reference link:http://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6119/548.full?sid=69b84ea1-59af-41bb-bd62-2ba7388ce195

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Kochs postulates The Microorganism of interest must be present in all individuals suspected to be infected The organism infected can be isolated from the infected individual and grown in pure culture The organism from the pure culture should infect the experimental individual From the    See Answer
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