Infect Immun. 1974 June; 9(6): 1126-1128
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1 Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77025, and Houston Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston, Texas 77031
ABSTRACT
The American opossum is the only experimental animal that regularly develops bacterial endocarditis spontaneously. There was no relation between the ability of opossums to clear bacteria from the bloodstream and the subsequent development of endocarditis.
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