"good" and "bad" aren't great adjectives for microbes... It's all about context

A species can be symbiotic in one location of the body and when kept in balance but pathogenic when in the wrong location or when the balance is thrown off

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Lol so true! In an effort to make sense of things we over simplify

this probably applies to everything else in life!