Figure 1. The sst1 locus mediates innate immunity to tuberculosis.
a, b, Survival of C3H, B6, and the C3H.B6-sst1 (sst1R) mice after i.v. (a) or aerosol (b) infection with MTB; c, MTB bacterial loads in the lungs of the sst1 congenic mice after the aerosol infection; d, e Tuberculosis lung lesions 25 days after i.v. infection (d) and 12 weeks after aerosol infection, H&E, 40X original magnification (e); f, FACS analysis of mechanism of cell death of the sst1 congenic macrophages infected with MTB (top panels) or BCG (bottom panels) in vitro; g, Multiplication of MTB (left panel) or M. bovis BCG (right panel) in the sst1 congenic macrophages in vitro (*p<0.01, **p<0.001). Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.