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. 2011 Jan 31;79(4):1718–1727. doi: 10.1128/IAI.01239-10

FIG. 7.

FIG. 7.

Inhibition of O. tsutsugamushi interactions with host cells by the ScaC polypeptide. (A) Preincubation of HeLa cells with GST-ScaC (lower panels) significantly inhibited O. tsutsugamushi interactions with host cells compared with preincubation with GST (upper panels). After incubation of the polypeptides with the host cells, O. tsutsugamushi was added, and incubation continued for a further 30 min. Cells were visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy. Green, O. tsutsugamushi; blue, nuclei. (B) The numbers of bacteria associated with each of 100 randomly selected host cells. The bars indicate the means ± standard deviations of triplicate experiments. *, P < 0.01.