Encapsulated Enterococcus faecalis: Role of encapsulation in persistence in mouse peritoneum in absence of mouse lethality

Authors
Bottone, EJ
Citation
Ej. Bottone, Encapsulated Enterococcus faecalis: Role of encapsulation in persistence in mouse peritoneum in absence of mouse lethality, DIAG MICR I, 33(1), 1999, pp. 65-68
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Microbiology
Journal title
DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
ISSN journal
07328893 → ACNP
Volume
33
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
65 - 68
Database
ISI
SICI code
0732-8893(199901)33:1<65:EEFROE>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Two nonhemolytic, mucoid, encapsulated strains of Enterococcus faecalis lac ked lethality for 23 white mice when inoculated (10(9) cells/mL) intraperit oneally. Bacteremia was short lived (2 to 3 days), but peritoneal cultures remained positive for 7 days postinoculation. Although encapsulation did no t result in animal lethality, encapsulation may have delayed peritoneal cle arance by interference with phagocytosis. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.