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Human beings share their environment with a great variety of other living things, the micro-organisms being one of them. Man is in constant contact with bacteria and viruses, and carries a variety of these micro-organisms, the natural defences of the body being protection against their harmful effects. Under certain conditions man can carry pathogenic organisms without ill effects to himself. The micro-organisms which can live quite harmlessly when carried by normal subjects can become dangerous if the host is debilitated, especially if his illness is accompanied by a lack of granulocytes, or insufficiency of immunological reactions.
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Mathé, G. (1970). The Aseptic Unit Essential to a Modern Hospital. In: Mathé, G. (eds) Aseptic Environment and Cancer Treatment. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-30498-3_1
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