THE PRESENCE OF BACTERIA IN THE LUNGS OF MICE FOLLOWING INHALATION
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- 1 August 1923
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 38 (2), 117-126
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.38.2.117
Abstract
1. When mice are exposed to an atmosphere containing cultures of bacteria in the form of a fine mist, the bacteria readily penetrate into the lower respiratory tract. 2. Pneumococci which have reached the lung as a result of this procedure usually disappear within a few hours and give rise to no infection. Hemolytic streptococci, on the other hand, persist in the lung for a considerably longer time and a general septicemia usually follows. 3. Attempts to determine the conditions under which pneumococci which have reached the lung by inhalation may induce a local or general infection have not been successful.Keywords
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