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. 2011 Jun 14;2(3):e00106-11. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00106-11

TABLE 2 .

Incidence of diarrhea in infant rabbits inoculated with V. cholerae V51 strain and its derivativesa

V51 strain Incidence (% of rabbits with diarrhea) No. of rabbits with the following diarrhea score:
Total no. of rabbits P valueb
Severe Mild None
WT 100 7 0 0 7
ΔtcpA mutant 62.5 7 3 6 16 0.12
ΔvcsN2 mutant 53.8 3 4 6 13 0.05
ΔtcpA vcsN2 mutant 0 0 0 6 6 0.006
ΔctxAB mutant 77.7 5 2 2 9
ΔctxAB tcpA mutant 70 7 0 3 10 1.0
ΔctxAB vcsN2 mutant 16.7 2 0 10 12 0.01
a

This table shows the incidence of diarrhea (percentage of rabbits infected with the indicated strains exhibiting diarrhea) and the number of infant rabbits with the different diarrhea scores, and statistical analyses of these results are presented. At least two independent experiments were performed for each mutant strain.

b

For the ΔtcpA, ΔvcsN2, and ΔtcpA vcsN2 mutants, the P value of the incidence for the mutant strain compared to the value for the WT is shown. For the ΔctxAB, ΔctxAB tcpA, and ΔctxAB vcsN2 mutants, the P value of the incidence for the mutant strain compared to the value for the ΔctxAB mutant is shown.