On 08/12/2015 08:49 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
     Are *we* a key part of the microbiome of the planet?   It seems like *we* are an essential element of 
the "living crap" of mother earth and our "virulent" destruction of other species and 
habitat even for ourselves, might have similar implications. Though I suppose that the analogy might be 
better with the "skin biome"?

Well, there is this:

The human gut microbiome as a transporter of antibiotic resistance genes 
between continents
http://aac.asm.org/content/early/2015/08/04/AAC.00933-15.abstract

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