When the intestines rupture and allow digestive microorganisms to enter the abdominal cavity, causing infection, it is an example of normal flora becoming pathogens because they have entered a part of the body that they:

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improve the health of.

improve the health of.

don’t normally inhabit.

don’t normally inhabit.

regularly inhabit.

regularly inhabit.

need to inhabit to grow.

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8 hours ago

The correct response is:

don’t normally inhabit.

When normal flora, which usually reside in the intestines, enter the abdominal cavity through a rupture, they can cause infection because that area of the body is not a typical environment for these microorganisms.