Article
Survival of Enterococcus faecalis in mouse peritoneal macrophages.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 1999
Gentry-Weeks C R, Karkhoff-Schweizer R, Pikis A, Estay M, Keith J M
Abstract excerpt
Enterococcus faecalis was tested for the ability to persist in mouse peritoneal macrophages in two separate studies. In the first study, the intracellular survival of serum-passaged E. faecalis 418 and two isogenic mutants [cytolytic strain FA2-2(pAM714) and non-cytolytic strain FA2-2(pAM771)] was compared with that of Escherichia coli DH5alpha by infecting BALB/c mice intraperitoneally and then monitoring the...
Topics
- Animals
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Escherichia coli
- Lactococcus lactis
- Macrophages, Peritoneal
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mutation
- Species Specificity
