Adhesion of Corynebacterium renale and Corynebacterium pilosum to epithelial cells of bovine vulva.
Corynebacterium renale and C pilosum adhered effectively to the epithelial cells of the bovine vulva; the numbers of these organisms that adhered to the vulval epithelial cells were 50 and 30/cell, respectively, which were several times as many as those that adhered to the uroepithelial cells. Of the epithelial cells of the vulva, cornified cells lacking nuclei bound more bacteria than did those with indistinct nuclei, indicating that adhesion of bacteria was most effective to the most aged cells. The marked adhesion of C renale and C pilosum to the epithelial cells of the vulva may indicate that the vulva is an important portal of entry of these bacteria.
D000268:Adhesiveness; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D003352:Corynebacterium / Q000502:physiology*; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D004848:Epithelium / Q000382:microbiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005260:Female; D013045:Species Specificity; D014551:Urinary Tract / Q000166:cytology; D014844:Vulva / Q000166:cytology*