How gastric acidity provides physiological barriers to infection?
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Gastric acidity inhibits most of the microbes in the stomach due to the imparted acidity by gastric HCl (pH 1-3). The low pH of the female genital tract of about 4.4 due to the presence of lactic acid-producing bacteria (normal flora) is inhibitory to most pathogens
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