A Boy Scout Goes Camping in the Woods for a Week

question 39

True/False

A Boy Scout goes camping in the woods for a week and doesn't take a shower. When he gets home, the microbes that he carried all week long are washed away in the shower, never to return. The microbes that the boy acquired in the woods and carried all week would be called transient microbial flora.

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