Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factor Type 1-Positive Escherichia coli Causes Increased Inflammation and Tissue Damage to the Prostate in a Rat Prostatitis Model

ABSTRACT 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.

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