Laboratory K-12 colonizing our guts?

[Dr Engelbert Buxbaum]

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...