Figure 1.

Cell-association efficiencies of Salmonella enteritidis after treatment with a MCFA blend. Salmonella bacteria to/in Caco-2 cells after being grown to logarithmic cultures for 4 h in the presence of MCFAs (0.04%), emulsifier (0.01% ; Em. Control) at pH 6. Control bacteria were included which were grown in unsupplemented LB medium (Control), at pH 6. Three technical replicates were performed per biological replicate, with 3 biological replicates in total. Figures represent the mean, median and variation (standard deviation) of the biological replicates. Mean is shown as a black circle, median as a vertical line inside the box, the first and third quartiles as the lower and upper edges of the box, respectively, and the minimum and maximum values as whiskers. Red circles represent biological replicates. The significance of difference between the distributions in shown with adjusted P-values obtained via Tukey's multiple comparisons corrections.