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That there are only 10x more bacteria cells than human cells is a gross underestimate. (no pun intended).
The population of bacterial cells is generally agreed to be 10^14. That's 100000000000000x more bacteria cells than human cells. (Tannock, 1995)
Also, the number of genes with bacterial origins is more like 223 (Relman, 2001)
Microflora are awesome!