Acute vesiculitis and its prostatic complications caused by E. coli in the rat.
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.
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*