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Bacillus aerogenes-capsulatus has a wide distribution in nature. It is found in soil and sewage water and in oysters and other shell fish, milk, cheese and various other foodstuffs. It is present in the feces of all domestic animals and a large number of wild animals. It has been cultured from the skin of normal persons, the mouths of new-born infants, the normal salivary glands and pancreas, the normal urine and the vagina, and from the circulating blood in puerperal sepsis, chorea and typhoid fever, as well as in other diseases in which injury of the intestinal mucosa occurs. It is present in the human intestine normally, and is usually limited to the cecum and colon but is occasionally found in the small intestines. It is less common in nursing babies and more abundant in old age. It has, however, been found in the new-born and is normally present in |
