Chow J W, Thal L A, Perri M B, Vazquez J A, Donabedian S M, Clewell D B, Zervos M J
Department of Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1993 Nov;37(11):2474-7. doi: 10.1128/AAC.37.11.2474.
A rabbit endocarditis model was utilized to evaluate the virulence conferred by the conjugative plasmid pAD1 with the following strains: Enterococcus faecalis plasmid-free FA2-2 and FA2-2 containing plasmids pAD1 (hemolysin and aggregation substance positive), pAM9058 (insertional inactivation of hemolysin), and pAM944 or pAM947 (insertional inactivation of aggregation substance). All isolates were similar in ability to produce endocarditis. Mean vegetation weight was greater in animals inoculated with strains that produced aggregation substance (P < 0.01). Mortality was significantly increased in animals given FA2-2 containing pAD1 compared with those given all other strains (P < 0.01). These results suggest that the combination of hemolysin and aggregation substance is associated with increased mortality and that vegetation weight is associated with production of aggregation substance in experimental E. faecalis endocarditis.
利用兔心内膜炎模型评估接合质粒pAD1赋予以下菌株的毒力:无质粒的粪肠球菌FA2-2以及含有质粒pAD1(溶血素和聚集物质呈阳性)、pAM9058(溶血素插入失活)和pAM944或pAM947(聚集物质插入失活)的FA2-2。所有分离株引起心内膜炎的能力相似。接种产生聚集物质菌株的动物的平均赘生物重量更大(P < 0.01)。与给予所有其他菌株的动物相比,给予含有pAD1的FA2-2的动物死亡率显著增加(P < 0.01)。这些结果表明,溶血素和聚集物质的组合与死亡率增加有关,并且赘生物重量与实验性粪肠球菌心内膜炎中聚集物质的产生有关。