Table 3.

OMV-mediated transformants obtained after 24 h of incubation with 10 μg of OMVs in plates of LB agar plates supplemented with 500 μg/ml of ampicillin

Treatment	No. of transformants	% of transformantsd
ATCC 17978 + OMVs	440	100
ATCC 17978 + OMVs treated with DNase and proteinase Ka	316	72
ATCC 17978 + OMVs treated with Triton X-100a	0
ATCC 17978 + pMMA2b	0
ATCC 17978c	0

^aSee Materials and Methods.

^bFree plasmid at concentrations similar to those found in OMVs.

^cNegative control, A. baumannii ATCC 17978 incubated alone.

^dData are the mean values from triplicate experiments.