Thread by @microbeminded2

Yes 👉 And when #bacteria enter the #blood, they are even more likely to infect + persist inside the cells of the immune system 👉 There, the proteins + #metabolites they create can directly modulate the activity of human genes that regulate #metabolism + immune response etc

https://twitter.com/cortjohnson/status/1114275436035563521

Also a growing # of organisms can persist in the #blood itself 👉 This @StanfordMed study found 1000s of never before discovered bacteria + #viruses in the blood of immunocompromised patients (99% of microbes identified were previously unknown to science): pnas.org/content/early/…

The team contends these newly discovered microbes 👉 “have potential consequences for human #health. They may prove to be the cause of acute or #chronic diseases that, to date, have unknown etiology”☝️This technology has not yet been used to study blood in conditions like #ME/CFS