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Increasing doses of radiation are associated with progressively higher mortality rates in animals,1–3 largely because of their increased susceptibility to various endogenous or exogenous pathogens.3 After irradiation, enteric organisms were recovered from lymphatic organs as well as from the bloodstream of these animals.4
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Brook, I. (1990). Antibiotics in Postirradiation Infection. In: Browne, D., Weiss, J.F., MacVittie, T.J., Pillai, M.V. (eds) Treatment of Radiation Injuries. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0864-3_9
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