TABLE 2.

Histopathologic analysis and H. felis evaluation in gastric mucosa of conventional BALB/c mice infected with H. felis and treated with LB-SCS or amoxicillin plus omeprazole

Treatment	Days postinfection	No. of mice per group presenting gastritis and/or inflammation	H. felis evaluationa
Control	29	5/7	2.5 ± 0.4
	70	4/6	1.7 ± 0.4
LB-SCS	29	0/6	1.5 ± 0.2
	70	0/6	1.5 ± 0.4
Amoxicillin + omeprazole	29	0/6	0
	70	0/6	1.2 ± 0.3

^a Mean grades of H. felis colonizing stomach ± standard errors of the means. H. felis cells were graded on a scale of 0 to 4 as follows: 0, absence of cells; 1, cells isolated and randomly distributed; 2, reduced number of cells; 3, large number of cells; 4, high number of cells.