Abstract:The many studies of the bacteriology of acute enteritis in infants and children have failed to agree on any single microbic etiologic factor. The majority, however, have incriminated various members of the B. dysenteriae group, mainly on the basis of their presence in the stools of such patients. This in itself is not a sufficient criterion for such a deduction. In common with others, we have isolated organisms of the dysenteriae group from the stools of normal infants and young children or of subjects with co… Show more
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