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Table 2.

The effectiveness of teat seal plus lacticin (32,768 AU/4 g teat seal) in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus DPC5246 from artificially infected udder quarters of lactating cows compared with untreated controls. Shedding was evaluated 18 h after inoculation of S. aureus

Treatment	Inoculum (cfu per 0.1 ml)	Quarters inoculated (n)	Quarters shedding S. aureus
Untreated	1.7 × 10³	29	19 (66%)^a

Teat seal + lacticin		29	4 (14%)^b

Untreated	6.8 × 10³	20	16 (80%)

Teat seal + lacticin		20	11 (55%)

^a,bValues with different superscripts within an experiment are significant P <0.001.