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Aggregation and Binding Substances Enhance Pathogenicity in Rabbit Models of<i>Enterococcus faecalis</i>Endocarditis
1 Jan 1998
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We investigated the importance of enterococcal aggregation substance (AS) and enterococcal binding substance (EBS) in rabbit models of Enterococcus faecalis cardiac infections. First, American Dutch belted rabbits were injected intraventricularly with 10(8) CFU and observed for 2 days. No clinical signs of illness developed in animals given AS- EBS- organisms, and all survived. All rabbits given AS- EBS+...
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