Participation of various bacterial species in translocation in intestines of rats subjected to stress

: In the rats, which were treated with impairing factors such as: malnutrition, cooling down and ischaemia, translocation was studied. Aerobes as well as anaerobes which penetrated beyond the intestine into the mesenterium, liver, spleen and kidneys were sought. Bacteria in peripheral blood were not found. The results show that the type of bacterium undergoing translocation does not depend on the factor impairing "intestinal barrier" and translocation mechanisms are most probably the same for all the bacteria found.