The truth is there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question because it depends on much more than biology. Womenâs social and economic backgrounds shape their life trajectories in profound ways. It is against this backdrop that the consequences of early or late childbearing for womenâs health and well-being play out. Data suggests that for African-American women, childbearing in the young adult years appears to be more harmful to later health than having children as a teenager.
The Test Sample. The stool culture is a test that detects and identifies bacteria that cause infections of the lower digestive tract. The test distinguishes between the types of bacteria that cause disease (pathogenic) and the types that are normally found in the digestive tract (normal flora).
What are ânormal flora,â and what do they do? Though microbes tend to get a bad rap as causes of disease, the vast, vast majority of them are harmless. Indeed, an enormous amount of them live amongst us: these are your ânormal floraâ. By the numbers, our body is more bacterial than human by a factor of about ten to one.