Table 3.

Survival of wild-type and mrxA strains in M. sexta

Time point	Survival of indicated straina		P value
	Wild type	mrxA mutant
48 h	63.6 (5.2)	46.2 (2.2)	0.003
96 h	11.4 (1.6)	24.3 (3.5)	0.002
144 h	8.9 (1.6)	10.4 (1.2)	0.457
192 h	8.6 (0.8)	9.1 (1.5)	0.793

^aData are expressed as 10⁸ CFU/ml and shown as means (SEs). Each value is derived from at least 17 replicate data points.