If poor nutrition, chronic disease or antibiotics disturb this delicate balance, the body can become vulnerable to problems like bacteria and fungal overgrowth or infectious diarrhea.
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The team reports in Science of Nature that the microbes found in two of the dung-beetle species were very effective at hampering the growth of seven of the fungi.