Should you be eating that? Food-derived bacteria and their role in treating disease

以微生物群的一部分存在的微生物为基础的药物临床应用现在已经成为现实。尽管取得了这些快速进展，但了解细菌是如何传播和在破坏后重新克隆是至关重要的。我们的初步数据表明，澳大利亚成年人平均每天在饮食中摄入超过1000万个细菌。这个项目试图了解这些关系，以及如何利用它们来开发下一代基于微生物组的医学。

The clinical application of medicines based on the microbes that exist as part of microbiomes is now a reality. Despite these rapid advances understanding how the bacteria are transmitted and recolonise after disruption is essential. Our preliminary data suggests that the average Australian adult consumes over 10 million bacteria per day in their diet. This project seeks to understand these relationships and how they can be exploited to develop the next generations of microbiome based medicine.