It has become evident that there is a great variation in bacterial numbers between individuals and even within individual patients on a daily basis. (epi4dogs.com)
Indeed, dogs treated successfully with antibiotics do not necessarily show a decrease in duodenal bacterial numbers. (epi4dogs.com)
The authors said that this result suggests that the reason bacterial numbers are so high in these mice, and, by extension, human LAD patients, is not because of a defect in the immune system's surveillance mechanism but because of the inflammation caused by the immune system's abnormal response to normal levels of bacteria in the gums. (sciencedaily.com)