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. 2007 Sep 17;75(12):5898–5907. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00014-07

FIG. 3.

FIG. 3.

Infection of mice defective in B- and/or T-cell functions. Wild-type and selectively deficient Cd3ɛ/, μMT/, and Rag2/ mice with the C57BL/6 background were injected intravenously with 107 CFU of M. abscessus or M. chelonae. The data shown are from one of two independent experiments (means ± standard deviations for log10 CFU per organ; four or five mice per group per time point). The significance of differences between selectively deficient mice and wild-type controls is indicated as follows: one asterisk, 0.001 < P < 0.05; two asterisks, P < 0.001. Note that M. abscessus colonies recovered from the liver of μMT/ mice on day 90 exhibited mixed S and R morphotypes at 3/1 to 1/3 ratios.