/oss/taxonomy/term/7629/all en /oss/article/medical-critical-thinking/blood-microbiome-probably-not-real <p>Up until recently, if bacteria were detected in your blood you would be in a world of trouble. Blood was long considered to be sterile, meaning free of viable microorganisms like bacteria. When disease-causing bacteria spread to the blood, they can cause a life-threatening septic shock.</p> <p>But the use of DNA sequencing technology has allowed researchers to more easily detect something that had been reported as early as the late 1960s: bacteria can be found in the blood and not cause disease.</p> Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:14:28 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9989 at /oss