The abilities of a Staphylococcus epidermidis wild-type strain and its slime-negative mutant to induce endocarditis in rabbits are comparable

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2778-2781

  Perdreau Remington, Francoise ^a,b,e   Sande, Merle A ^c   Peters, Georg ^d   Chambers, Henry F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^e SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; ENDOCARDITIS; GLYCOCALYX; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0031864516     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2778-2781.1998     Document Type: Article

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