Methods Fourteen animals underwent surgery with placement of a plastic catheter in the left
side of the heart. Six of the pigs did not receive a bacterial inoculation and were used to …

Insertion of a polyethylene catheter into the heart was used for regular establishment of
sterile endocarditis in 52 rabbits. The catheter was inserted with the aid of guide wire, and …

Rosenbach produced experimental bacterial endocarditis in dogs by passing an instrument
down the right carotid artery to wound the valves. Most of his. experiments on dogs and …

Gram-positive cocci account for the large majority of cases of infective endocarditis.
Pathogenesis investigations of endocarditis have therefore focused on purported virulence …

Table. Pyelonephritis was produced in randomly bred Wistar rats, weighing 120-150 g, by
the iv injection of 1.01-1.20 x 109 cfu of Streptococcus faecalis strain OK (ATCC 23241) in 1 …

Bacterial endocarditis is a disease of primarily middle-aged to older, large-breed dogs that is
associated with high morbidity and mortality. It presents many challenges with respect to …

Background: Endocarditis is a severe disease in which neurological complications are
frequent and associated with increased mortality and complex disease management. In the …

Open heart surgery has been performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 13
patients less than 6 months after the initiation of treatment for acute or subacute bacterial …

Three aspects of our current understanding of the pathogenesis of infective endocarditis are
reviewed: the size of the infected vegetation, host defence mechanisms and conditions …