title: Host specificity of filamentous, segmented microorganisms adherent to the small bowel epithelium in mice and rats.
abstract: Germfree rats and mice were given by gavage samples of ileal homogenates prepared from conventional rats and mice. Filamentous, segmented procaryotes adhered to the small bowel epithelium in the ex-germfree mice only when the homogenate was made from mouse bowel and in the ex-germfree rats only when the inoculum came from rats. Thus, the filamentous microorganisms are host animal specific.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D004848:Epithelium / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005856:Germ-Free Life; D007082:Ileum / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice / Q000382:microbiology*; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D051381:Rats / Q000382:microbiology*; D013045:Species Specificity