The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes.

This highly significant pattern is confirmed by the percentage of individuals not sharing a single detectable strain: whereas only 4% of mother–offspring pairs had no detected strain-sharing event, no strains were shared by 82% of pairs with no obvious person-to-person contact in the same population, and by up to 97% of individuals in different populations (Fig. 1f ).

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