title: How normal is a "normal" flora in animal or man?
abstract: When investigating different disturbances of the normal intestinal flora causing disorders and/or diseases in man and animal, these studies include comparisons of results with control materials, i.e., materials from conventional laboratory animals or healthy human beings. However, how "normal" is the control group's flora? In this paper two different examples will be discussed; one investigation with laboratory animals and one from a human study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology, Nobels väg 16, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden. elisabeth.norin@ki.se
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Norin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D058491:Bacterial Load; D058448:Biota; D005260:Female; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley