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TABLE 3.

Levels of transparent-phase organisms in nasal washes and nasal tissues

Expt	Strain	% of transparent phase in inoculum	No. of mice	% of transparent phase in^a:		P for nasal wash versus tissue^b
Expt	Strain	% of transparent phase in inoculum	No. of mice	Nasal wash	Nasal tissue	P for nasal wash versus tissue^b
1	TIGR4	87	4	76.8 ± 4.9	39.7 ± 7.0	0.0048
2	EF3030	83	3	96.7 ± 0.9	6.3 ± 1.9	0.0009
3	BG7322	3	3	96.0 ± 0.6	2.0 ± 0.7	<0.0001
4	BG7322	5	3	61.7 ± 3.3	26.3 ± 5.2	0.046
5-7	L82016	50	13	>90^c	<10^c	<0.0001

In each case the percentage of the opaque phase is 100% minus the percentage of the transparent phase.

The Students t test was used for TIGR4, EF3030, and BG7322, the Fisher exact test was used for L82016.

For 13 mice the nasal wash bacteria were >90% transparent, and for 13 mice the nasal tissue bacteria were <90% transparent. The L82016 data were calculated from a pool of the data from experiments 5, 6, and 7, as shown in Tables 1 and 2.