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Mucoid encapsulated Enterococcus faecalis: an emerging morphotype isolated from patients with urinary tract
E J Bottone1, L Patel, P Patel
1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 10029, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|June 23, 1998
Abstract:
Three strains of encapsulated Enterococcus faecalis, which produced highly mucoid coalescing colonies on routine bacteriologic media, were isolated from urine specimens of patients with urinary tract infection. Encapsulation could be demonstrated through India ink preparations. The occurrence of this unusual enterococcal colony morphotype, which resembles that of a Gram-negative bacterium, may delay true identification.