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Infection and Immunity, September 2000, p. 5443-5446, Vol. 68, No. 9
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Contribution of Clumping Factor B to Pathogenesis of Experimental Endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011 Lausanne,¹ and Division of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Universitaire de Genève, 1211 Geneva,³ Switzerland, and Department of Microbiology, Moyne Institut of Preventive Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland²

Received 2 March 2000/Returned for modification 29 March 2000/Accepted 1 June 2000

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