Fig. 6.

Persistence of different strains of S. maltophilia in the lungs of A/J mice. Animals were intranasally inoculated with comparable numbers of strain K279a (a) or strain UPSm1 (▴), UPSm2 (▵), UPSm3 (□), UPSm4 (○) or UPSm5 (⧫) (b), and then at indicated times post-inoculation, the c.f.u. in total lung homogenates were determined by plating. Data are the mean±sd obtained from four infected animals and are representative of at least two independent experiments.