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Aortic Valve Damage for the Study of Left-Sided, Native Valve Infective Endocarditis in Rabbits

Wilmara Salgado-Pabón1, Patrick M Schlievert2

  • 1Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, 51 Newton Road, 3-450 BSB, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. wilmara-salgado-pabon@uiowa.edu.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|December 18, 2015
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Aortic valve damageCarotid catheterizationNative valve endocarditisRabbits

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