Measurement of different mechanisms for elimination of bacteria from the lung.
Abstract
CONTENT ALERTS Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://mmbr.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ BACTERIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, Sept., 1966 Copyright i 1966 American Society for Microbiology Vol. 30, No. 3 Printed in U.S.A. RAGNAR RYLANDER Department ofGeneral Hygiene, National Institute ofPublic Health, and Institute ofHygiene, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and Institute of Hygiene, Umeb University, Umea, Sweden INTRODUCTION ................................................................ METHODS AND RESULTS ....................................................... 514 COMMENTS ................................................................... 514 LITERATURE CITED ............................................................ 516 INTRODUCTION Several clinical and experimental studies have shown that the normal defense of the lung against bacteria might be affected by environmental agents, such as toxic gases (2), alcohol (7), and decreased temperature (3). Although experimental studies of the disappearance rate of viable bacteria or of changes in mortality among bacteria-exposed animals are of great interest, a complete understanding of the recorded effects requires the study of the different elimination mechanisms separately. In turn, certain of the agents used to produce changes are able to affect one or more of these mechanisms. This report presents a brief description of experimental methods used for the elucidation of the function of the