Answer to Question #77299 in Microbiology for maanas

Question

How many E.coli bacteria needed to stop one listeria bacteria? Or What is the ratio of E.coli to Listeria needed to feel better?

Answer 1

If you are severely ill with fever due to Listeria, E. coli will not help you. Timely prescription of antibiotics can cure the infection. You can also have a bacterium in your body and it will become pathogenic only when your immunity decreases. Therefore, there is no established optimal ratio of this bacterium.