Table 2.

Combination of experiments and time points to create the 4 main responses to mastitis infection

	Time after infection
Experiment #	2 h	3 h	6 h	8 h	12 h	24 h	36 h-72 h	72 h
1A: E. coli in cattle (in vivo)			{1} I, II, IV		{2} I, IV	{3} I, III, IV
1B: S. aureus in cattle (in vivo)			{4} I, IV		{5} I, IV	{6} I, II, IV
1C: S. aureus in cattle (in vivo)					{7} I, II, IV			{8} I, III, IV
2: S. uberis in cattle (in vivo)							{9} I, IV
3: S. aureus in cattle macrophages (in vitro)	{10} I, II, IV		{11} I, III, IV
4: S. aureus in goat (in vivo)					{12} I, II	{13} I, III
5: S. aureus in sheep dendritic cells (in vitro)		{14} I, II		{15} I, III
6: S. aureus in goat (in vivo)						{16} I

Combination of microarray data from a total of 6 different experiments and 16 different time points ({in parentheses}, see also Table 1 and text for details) to analyse 4 different responses to mastitis infection: (I) overall response, (II) early stage response, (III) late stage response, and (IV) cattle-specific response.