Table 1.

Spirochaete counts per 10⁶ mouse tissue cells as determined by qPCR (Pahl et al., 1999).

Time p.i.	Sample no.	Infected foot	Contralateral foot
1 h	1	12,592	0
	2	751	0
3 h	1	16,306	0
	2	12,265	0
6 h	1	11,999	0
	2	ND	0
12 h	1	287	0
	2	ND	0
24 h	1	415	0
	2	642	0
72 h	1	880	0
	2	ND	513
8 days	1	28,000	0
	2	146,067	0
15 days	1	6,667	343
	2	5,429	13,889
55 days	1	5,278	2,200
	2	8,644	159

Only the development in C3H/HeJ mice is shown here; spirochaete populations in BALB/c mice develop similarly (Pahl et al., 1999).