title: Acute vesiculitis and its prostatic complications caused by E. coli in the rat.
abstract: Injection of solutions of E. coli leads to vesiculitis which regresses spontaneously, and to interstitial prostatitis. Castration preceding experimental injection of a bacterial solution modifies the progression of the vesiculitis which then becomes chronic. Infection does not seem to diffuse via the lympathic system, even after castration.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002369:Castration; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D007249:Inflammation / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012669:Seminal Vesicles / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*