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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

We investigated the importance of enterococcal aggregation substance (AS) and enterococcal
binding substance (EBS) in rabbit models of Enterococcus faecalis cardiac infections. First…

Aminoglycosides are recommended for the treatment of Enterococcus faecalis infections,
especially in severe and bacteremic infection. However, the optimal aminoglycoside or the …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… immunity against endocarditis. In the rabbit model of experimental endocarditis, we used a
… from the conjugative plasmid pCF10) to immunize rabbits, followed by challenge with Asc10-…

… 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 …