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Colonization of S. mutans UA159 and derivative strains on the teeth of rats after 15 days. The symbols shown represent the recovered bacterial colonies from each individual rat while the horizontal line represents the mean recovery per bacterial strain. Grubb's test did not indicate the presence of outliers among each strain. *, P ≤ 0.02.
