Pathogenicity of Enterococci in a Rat Model of Fecal Peritonitis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 142-145

  Matlow, Anne G ^a,b   Bohnen, John M A ^a,b   Nohr, Carl ^a,b   Christou, Nicholas ^a,b   Meakins, Jonathon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FATALITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STREPTOCOCCUS FAECALIS;

ABSCESS; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; MALE; PERITONITIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0024413777     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/160.1.142     Document Type: Article

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