Official websites use .gov
A
.gov website belongs to an official
government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you've safely
connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive
information only on official, secure websites.
Comparison of bacterial growth of three human pathogens in the lungs of neutropenic mice inoculated by nasal instillation of S. aureus ATCC 29213 and S. pneumoniae INS-E611 or aerosolized K. pneumoniae GRP-0107. The apparent difference in the extension of the growth curves is due to the fact that mice infected with pneumococci survived the model, while the other organisms killed the animals 24–48 hours after infection; other details for each model in the text.
