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Clinical Evidence of Bacterial Translocation from the Gut

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Physicians have always looked upon the gut with dark suspicion. The colon, that enormous reservoir of potentially pathogenic bacteria, was especially suspect. Purging, sometimes violently, often combined with bleeding was a common remedy of our medical forebears. Wiggers in his classic on shock in 1950 mentions that bacteria might possibly make their way out of the colon as a result of ischemic damage to tissues.

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  1. Department of Surgery, New Jersey Medical School, 185 S. Orange Avenue, Room G-506, Newark, New Jersey, 07103, USA

    B. F. Rush Jr. & J. N. McCullough

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  1. Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für experimentelle und klinische Traumatologie, Donaueschingenstraße 13, 1200, Wien, Austria

    Günther Schlag  & Heinz Redl  & 

  2. Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Maryland, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    John H. Siegel MD

  3. School of Medicine, John Hopkins University, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

    John H. Siegel MD

  4. Shriners Burns Institute and The University of Texas Medical Branch, 610 Texas Avenue, Galveston, Texas, 77550, USA

    Daniel L. Traber

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Rush, B.F., McCullough, J.N. (1991). Clinical Evidence of Bacterial Translocation from the Gut. In: Schlag, G., Redl, H., Siegel, J.H., Traber, D.L. (eds) Shock, Sepsis, and Organ Failure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76511-7_5

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