Relation between the faecal concentration of various potentially pathogenic microorganisms and infections in individuals (mice) with severely decreased resistance to infection

Lethally irradiated conventional mice were killed at daily intervals after irradiation. A high correlation was found between the occurrence of bacterial over-growth in the digestive tract and invasion into the regional lymph nodes the spleen and the blood. By oral contamination of mice with quite high doses of either an exogenous or an...