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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 28.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2006 May;60(4):963–972. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05163.x

Table 2.

Mouse infection assay with MC58 wild-type, galMKO and mapAKO strains.

Bacterial strains Challenge dose Number of animals Bacteraemiaa Pb
MC58 wild type 3.2 × 107 40 8.3 × 105
mapAKO 3.6 × 107 40 3.9 × 102 2.4 × 10−7
galMKO 3.7 × 107 40 8.9 × 103 2.0 × 10−3
a

Values are geometric means of the bacterial cfu ml−1 measured in the blood of each animal.

b

The significance of difference in the level of bacteraemia was evaluated by two-tailed t-test.

Six-week-old BALB/c mice, 10 mice per group, were infected with the indicated amount of bacteria in four independent experiments. Bacteraemia was measured 18 h after intraperitoneal challenge.