Microflora vs. Microbiota

Microscopic plant life, especially the bacterial colonies found in the gut of normal, healthy animals and humans.

The microbial flora harbored by normal, healthy individuals.

Microbiota are found in and on all multicellular organisms studied to date from plants to animals. Microbiota include bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and viruses.

Example: ‘ecological communities of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms’;