title: Possible role of colonic content in the mucosal association of pathogenic shigella.
abstract: Association of Shigella flexneri to cecal membrances was studied by incubating the pathogen with cecal slices of germfree mice. The slices were first incubated with stool supernatants from germfree, shigella-monocontaminated, and conventional animals. Quantitation of shigellae in homogenates of treated slices revealed an increase of organisms only in those slices exposed to contaminated stool supernatants.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002021:Buffers; D002432:Cecum / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D003106:Colon / Q000382:microbiology*; D005856:Germ-Free Life; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000382:microbiology*; D051379:Mice; D012763:Shigella flexneri / Q000472:pathogenicity*
chemical_list: D002021:Buffers