title: Encapsulated Enterococcus faecalis: role of encapsulation in persistence in mouse peritoneum in absence of mouse lethality.
abstract: Two nonhemolytic, mucoid, encapsulated strains of Enterococcus faecalis lacked lethality for 23 white mice when inoculated (10(9) cells/mL) intraperitoneally. Bacteremia was short lived (2 to 3 days), but peritoneal cultures remained positive for 7 days postinoculation. Although encapsulation did not result in animal lethality, encapsulation may have delayed peritoneal clearance by interference with phagocytosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 10029, USA.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Bottone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010537:Peritoneum / Q000382:microbiology