TABLE 1.
Intracellular survival of various strains of E. coli in macrophages
| E. coli strain | Phenotype | Survival (104 CFU/well) ina:
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| RAW 264.7 cells
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THP-M cells
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| 1 h | 4 h | 24 h | 1 h | 4 h | 24 h | ||
| E44 | OmpA+ K1+ Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB+ | 3.1 ± 0.4 | 8.8 ± 1.5 | 1.1 ± 0.5 | 1.2 ± 1.0 | 2.7 ± 0.5 | 0.5 ± 0.5 |
| E91 | OmpA− K1+ Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB+ | 0.5 ± 0.5 | 0.7 ± 0.2 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.2 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.1 |
| E66 | OmpA+ K1− Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB+ | 6.0 ± 0.9 | 12.4 ± 1.6 | 1.6 ± 0.5 | 3.0 ± 0.7 | 5.1 ± 0.9 | 0.7 ± 0.2 |
| E44 S− | OmpA+ K1+ Sfa− IbeA+ IbeB+ | 3.9 ± 0.6 | 7.2 ± 0.7 | 0.7 ± 0.6 | 1.4 ± 0.4 | 2.9 ± 0.7 | 0.9 ± 0.4 |
| 10A23 | OmpA+ K1+ Sfa+ IbeA−IbeB+ | 1.9 ± 0.5 | 3.2 ± 0.6 | 0.2 ± 0.3 | 0.7 ± 0.4 | 1.1 ± 0.4 | 0.2 ± 0.2 |
| 7A33 | OmpA+ K1+ Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB− | 6.1 ± 1.2 | 12.1 ± 0.9 | 1.1 ± 0.8 | 1.8 ± 0.6 | 3.4 ± 0.7 | 0.9 ± 0.4 |
| E105 | pOmpA+ K1+ Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB+ | 3.8 ± 0.9 | 9.1 ± 0.7 | 1.7 ± 0.7 | 1.4 ± 0.7 | 3.7 ± 0.4 | 0.7 ± 0.8 |
| E111 | OmpA− K1+ Sfa+ IbeA+ IbeB+ | 0.4 ± 0.5 | 0.6 ± 0.4 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.3 ± 0.3 | 0.9 ± 0.2 | 0.1 ± 0.3 |
The values are means ± standard deviations.