On the Bacteriology of Normal Organs

1 April 1901

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection

Vol. 1 (2) , 277-284
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400000231

Abstract

The question of the presence or absence of micro-organisms in the normal organs of the body has occupied the attention of numerous observers; yet, despite the fact that its solution is not accompanied by any great difficulties, the results of experimentation have been strangely at variance. For instance, Meissner stated that no bacteria capable of development are present in the living tissues of the healthy animal, while Zweifel (1885) expressed the opposite opinion, namely, that human organs habitually contain germs, that these germs, however, are anaerobic in character, their capability of development being limited by the amount of oxygen present in the blood stream.

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