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SUMMARY

Mixtures of mutant organisms of an invasive (IN) strain, a strain enteropathogenic (EP) for calves, lambs and piglets, and a non-pathogenic (NP) strain of that could be differentiated from each other by their antibiotic resistances, were given orally to an immunoglobulin-negative (IG—) and an immunoglobulin-positive (IG+) calf, lamb and piglet. By the use of appropriate antibiotic-containing culture media, the concentrations of organisms of each of the three strains in the contents of the alimentary tracts and tissues (liver, spleen, kidney, blood and mesenteric lymph glands) of the animals were estimated when they were killed. In the three IG — animals, the IN strain proliferated in the tissues and the EP strain proliferated in the small intestines; in general, the concentrations of the IN strain in the small intestines and the EP strain in the tissues, apart from the mesenteric lymph glands, were as low as those of the NP strain in these sites. The only strain that proliferated in the small intestine of the IG + animals was the EP strain, which proliferated in the small intestine of the calf and piglet; no organisms of either strain were isolated from the tissues of these three animals, except from their mesenteric lymph glands.

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