Staphylococcal kidney abscesses in rats treated with corticosteroids
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Intravascular Delivery of Biologics to the Rat Kidney
Published on: September 1, 2016
Laboratory Animals
|October 1, 1977
Abstract:
A heavy growth of Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from kidney abscesses in rats from 2 inbred strains treated with corticosteroids. The S. aureus phage types which caused the abscesses are endemic in the rat breeding colonies. One strain of rat was more sensitive to the action of the corticosteroids.

