NEW ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EXTRAORGANISM PATHOGENIC MICROBIAL-POPULATIONS

The author summarizes the results of his own studies of pathogenic microorganisms and saprophytes, their intertransitional forms. The environmental pathogenic bacteria have been demonstrated to be autotropic, but in man and warm-blooded animals the organisms act as heterotrophic. This explains their wide range of metabolic plasticity and smooth distinction of saprophytes and parasites.