Baddour L M, Christensen G D, Schadow K H
Department of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
J Antimicrob Chemother. 1989 Sep;24(3):365-73. doi: 10.1093/jac/24.3.365.
We compared the efficacy of vancomycin in the treatment of experimental endocarditis caused by either a parent strain of Staphylococcus epidermidis that produced slime or a daughter strain that produced less slime. After subcutaneously administered vancomycin, we noted similar cure rates and similar microbiological characteristics of endocardial infections in rats challenged with these strains, regardless of slime produced.