Table 3.

Comparative bacterial load and pathology scores of tissues between groups of treatment of animals that died after bacterial challenge.

	A (controls)	B (clarithromycin)	C (amikacin)	D (clarithromycin + amikacin)
	Bacterial load (mean ± SE, log10 of cfu/mL)
Liver	3.46 ± 0.79	3.34 ± 0.89	4.19 ± 0.92	2.14 ± 0.59
Spleen	3.64 ± 0.75	3.63 ± 0.92	4.10 ± 0.90	3.58 ± 0.79
Kidney	5.94 ± 0.50	4.92 ± 0.73	6.63 ± 0.30	6.82 ± 0.12
Lung	4.73 ± 0.59	4.09 ± 0.83	6.28 ± 0.39	5.76 ± 0.62
	Pathology score (mean ± SE)
Liver	1.25 ± 0.25	0.38 ± 0.18a	0.80 ± 0.20	0.71 ± 0.28
Spleen	2.50 ± 0.38	2.70 ± 0.37	2.80 ± 0.20	2.43 ± 0.37
Kidney	2.38 ± 0.46	2.13 ± 0.52	2.30 ± 0.58	2.71 ± 0.36
Lung	1.38 ± 0.32	0.75 ± 0.25b	1.30 ± 0.16	1.29 ± 0.29

P of comparisons to group A: ^a0.012, ^b0.049