Diminished platelet binding in vitro by Staphylococcus aureus is associated with reduced virulence in a rabbit model of infective endocarditis

PM Sullam, AS Bayer, WM Foss… - Infection and …, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
… When tested in a rabbit model, animals inoculated with PS12 were significantly less likely
to develop endocarditis and had lower densities of organisms (CFU per gram) within …

Rabbit model of bacterial endocarditis

A Lefort, B Fantin - Handbook of animal models of infection, 1999 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter describes a rabbit model of bacterial endocarditis, in which
the white New Zealand female rabbits weighing 2–2.5 kg are the most commonly used. The …

Evaluation of antimicrobial agents in the rabbit model of endocarditis

MA Sande - Reviews of infectious diseases, 1981 - academic.oup.com
… in the heart of a rabbit results in nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis characterized by an …
vegetations typical of infective endocarditis. In the rabbit model, endocarditis induced by …

Comparison of a rabbit model of bacterial endocarditis and an in vitro infection model with simulated endocardial vegetations

E Hershberger, EA Coyle, GW Kaatz… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The result of this study indicates the in vitro model to be comparable to the rabbit model
of endocarditis for study of the activity of fluoroquinolones. However, studies with other …

A new model for infective endocarditis of the mitral valve in rabbits

K Imataka, Y Kitahara, S Naito, J Fujii - American Heart Journal, 1993 - Elsevier
… of rabbits, we produced experimental infective endocarditis by bacterial inoculation alone. …
animal model of infective endocarditis as a counterpart of the human disease. This model was …

Notes on the early history of infective endocarditis and the development of an experimental model

A Contrepois - Clinical infectious diseases, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… in vegetations and cardiac valves of patients with endocarditis was first put forth by Winge
in … , an animal model of experimental endocarditis in which the aortic valves of rabbits were …

A rabbit model of right-sided Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis created with echocardiographic guidance

M Wang, Y Zhang, M Fan, Y Guo, W Ren… - Cardiovascular …, 2013 - Springer
… widely used experimental models of infective endocarditis (IE) are the rabbit and rat models,
in … Our study was designed to create a rabbit model of IE right-sided with echocardiographic …

Aggregation and Binding Substances Enhance Pathogenicity in Rabbit Models of Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis

PM Schlievert, PJ Gahr, AP Assimacopoulos… - Infection and …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
We investigated the importance of enterococcal aggregation substance (AS) and enterococcal
binding substance (EBS) in rabbit models of Enterococcus faecalis cardiac infections. First…

Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus strains for ability to cause infective endocarditis and lethal sepsis in rabbits

AR Spaulding, EA Satterwhite, YC Lin… - … cellular and infection …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
… is a major cause of infective endocarditis (IE) and sepsis. … sae is critical in vivo in the rabbit
model for IE in that mutants, that … to be critical for IE in a rabbit model. Pragman et al. showed …

Development of a mouse model of induced Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis

GW Gibson, SC Kreuser, JM Riley… - Comparative …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
… The mouse model of bacterial endocarditis we developed has both advantages and …
standard rabbit and rat models of infective endocarditis. The advantages are that the mouse model