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When normal microbiota become pathogenic and produce disease they are called opportunistic pathogens?
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When normal microbiota become pathogenic and produce disease they are called opportunistic pathogens?

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Normal microbiota can become opportunistic pathogens if conditions overweigh the immune system, there are changes in the balance of the microbiota, a member of microbiota starts living in the part of the body where they don't normally live.
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