I bet a substantial number of CPPS sufferers have enterococcus faecalis in
their prostatic secretions. Huh? Am I wrong about this doctors? Anyways,
it's interesting enterococcus faecalis can cause inflammatory bowel disease
yet when it's isolated in CPPS sufferers it's normal flora.

Am J Pathol. 2002 Jun;160(6):2253-7.  Related Articles, Links

Enterococcus faecalis induces inflammatory bowel disease in interleukin-10
knockout mice.

Balish E, Warner T.

Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison,
Wisconsin, USA. balish@musc.edu

Germ-free interleukin-10 knockout (IL-10 KO) mice developed inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD) after they were colonized with a pure culture of
Enterococcus faecalis. E. faecalis not only induced IBD (primarily in colon
and rectum) but rectal dysplasia and adenocarcinoma was also found in the
IL-10 KO mice. Conventional (complex-intestinal flora) IL-10 KO mice
developed IBD within 10 to 15 weeks of age and showed more pathology in the
cecum (typhlitis) than we observed with E. faecalis-induced IBD in
gnotobiotic IL-10 KO mice. Conversely, neither germ-free IL-10 mice nor
IL-10 KO mice colonized as adults, with a pure culture of Candida albicans,
Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus casei, L. reuteri, L. acidophilus, a
Bifidobacterium sp., Lactococcus lactis, or a Bacillus sp. developed IBD
during the 25- to 30-week study. E. faecalis is a common intestinal microbe
of man and animals that can trigger IBD, dysplasia, and carcinoma in a
genetically susceptible murine host.

PMID: 12057927 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]