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Estimate for a reference 70 kg man: roughly 1.3 bacteria per human cell, not the old "10 to 1" figure (PLOS Biology, 2016). By genes the gap is far wider: gut microbial genes outnumber human genes more than 100 to 1 (Nature, 2010).