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Jan 15, 2015
Every inch of the wall would be covered with 110,000,000,000 bacteria. This would be an average for the entire GI tract.
If 0.001% made across, that would be the number that does make it (100,000).
However, many fewer would make across as the walls of the tract. The walls are filled with lymph nodes that make macrophages that would destroy all of them.
If any did make it beyond the wall, the blood which carries the same cells, would act as a clean up crew.
The body tries very hard to keep what is in the GI tract in the GI tract. The body wants to keep the inside of the body sterile.
