TABLE 1.

In vitro adherence of various bacteria to CBHMC following incubation at different time intervals

Bacterium	Mean no. of bacteria/CBHMC (± SEM) after incubation fora:
	1 h	3 h
S. aureus CI127	4.1 ± 2	15.2 ± 4
S. faecium CI126	7.6 ± 3	16.8 ± 3
K. pneumoniae CI128	1.1 ± 0.4	1.7 ± 0.8
C. freundii CI125	6.5 ± 2	11.2 ± 4
E. coli ORN103(pSH2)	6.6 ± 3	15.1 ± 3
E. coli ORN103(pSH2) + d-mannose	0.3 ± 0.2	0.3 ± 0.1
E. coli ORN103(pUT2002)	0.5 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.2

^aAt least 400 CBHMC were examined for each time point in three different sets of experiments.