title: Animal models of peritonitis.
abstract: A reproducible animal model of peritonitis has been developed. It uses standard animals, standardized cultures of bacteria and simple techniques. Use of this model would facilitate comparison of data from workers in this field. The use of small rodents permits the use of comparatively large populations for statistical evaluation. The method is cheap and economic of laboratory space and does not require surgical expertise.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections; D001441:Bacteroides fragilis; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections; D007274:Injections, Intraperitoneal; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000209:etiology*; D011512:Proteus Infections; D011514:Proteus vulgaris