Endocarditis and biofilm-associated pili of Enterococcus faecalis
J. Clin. Invest. Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, et al. 116:2799 doi:10.1172/JCI29021 [
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Figure 4Attenuation of a nonpiliated
ebpA deletion mutant in an endocarditis model.
Percentages of viable wild-type OG1RF and the
ebpA deletion mutant (TX5475) recovered from vegetation, kidneys, and initial inocula from 20 rats are shown; 4 rats had sterile vegetations. Horizontal lines indicate means.
#P = 0.0069,
†P = 0.0093 versus inoculum; χ
2 test.
