TABLE 2.

Protection elicited by rabbit dPNAG-DT sera against various S. aureus strains in the murine bacteremia model in comparison to NRS

S. aureus strain	Challenge dose	Mean CFU/ml blood ± SEMa		% Reduction	P valuea
		NRS	dPNAG-DT sera
10833	2.5 × 106	1,925 ± 588	446 ± 52	77	0.04
Becker	1.8 × 106	184 ± 3.5	82 ± 2.5	55	0.034
COL	3.1 × 105	229 ± 2.1	105 ± 2	54	<0.001
MN8	2.5 × 107	9,821 ± 3,545	914 ± 167	91	0.045

^aP value determined by unpaired t test. SEM, standard error of the mean.