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 …

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…

[HTML][HTML] 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

Rat model of experimental endocarditis

J Santoro, ME Levison - Infection and Immunity, 1978 - Am Soc Microbiol
… A simple model of infective endocarditis was produced in rats… DISCUSSION The rabbit
model of bacterial endocarditis has … of left-sided endocarditis on the aortic valve of rabbits using …