| renal infarction and immune-mediated glomerulonephritis in sheep (ovis aries) chronically implanted with indwelling catheters. | microbial infections are common sequelae in humans and animals implanted with long-term intravascular catheters. understanding the pathophysiology of infectious morbidity is critical to improving quality of care in catheterized subjects. here, we describe findings in 6 clinically healthy, male sheep implanted with indwelling aortic or cardiac catheters for 6 to 10 mo. we isolated multiple bacterial species including serratia spp., enterobacter agglomerans, eschericia coli, klebsiella oxytoca, an ... | 2006 | 16884173 |