Relation of Riboflavin Deficiency to Spontaneous Epidemics of Salmonella in Mice

Abstract

Summary

Controlled nutrition experiments with mice kept on a riboflavin-deficient diet show that these animals are much more highly susceptible to a spontaneous Salmonella infection than are control mice from the same stock and mothers. Isocaloric paired-fed controls given a full vitamin ration show an intermediate degree of susceptibility between the riboflavin-deficient and the controls.