Rippere-Lampe K E, Lang M, Ceri H, Olson M, Lockman H A, O'Brien A D
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814-4799, USA.
Infect Immun. 2001 Oct;69(10):6515-9. doi: 10.1128/IAI.69.10.6515-6519.2001.
Infection of rat prostates with cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1 (CNF1)-positive uropathogenic Escherichia coli caused more inflammation-mediated morphological and histological tissue damage than did infection with isogenic CNF1-negative mutants. These striking differences occurred despite the finding that bacterial counts for the strain pairs were indistinguishable. We conclude that CNF1 contributes to E. coli virulence in a model of acute prostatitis. To our knowledge, the results of this study provide the first demonstration of a role for any uropathogenic E. coli virulence factor in acute prostatitis.
用1型细胞毒性坏死因子(CNF1)阳性的尿路致病性大肠杆菌感染大鼠前列腺,比用同基因CNF1阴性突变体感染造成的炎症介导的形态学和组织学组织损伤更多。尽管发现这对菌株的细菌计数没有区别,但仍出现了这些显著差异。我们得出结论,在急性前列腺炎模型中,CNF1有助于大肠杆菌的毒力。据我们所知,本研究结果首次证明了任何尿路致病性大肠杆菌毒力因子在急性前列腺炎中的作用。