Laboratory K-12 colonizing our guts?

[Duncan Clark]

Historians believe that in newspost 
<op.trq9fb0i66vu6s from bengelbert-dm.rusm.rossu.loc> on Thu, 3 May 2007, Dr 
Engelbert Buxbaum <engelbert_buxbaum from hotmail.com> penned the following 
literary masterpiece:
>Am 03.05.2007, 08:50 Uhr, schrieb Trond Erik Vee Aune 
><trondaun from nt.ntnu.no>:
>
>> My thoughts went in similar directions, but do you know of any 
>>studies supporting our hypothesis that lab bugs are too weak to 
>>compete with natural gut flora? It would be a simple test to PCR 
>>screen for plasmid DNA from fecal matter. I would really like to see 
>>some conclusive data in either direction.
>
>IIRC this was extensively discussed in the Asilomar Conference some 30 
>years back. A search for that would probably turn up something...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_conference_on_recombinant_DNA

Duncan
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Duncan Clark
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