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cAnNCrl mice^#.

	Abscess size (mm²), strain of mice, and bacterial dose (CFUs^*)						Colonization of catheters (no. of CFUs ± SEM^‡), strain of mice, and bacterial dose (CFUs)
Bacteria	C57BL/6JCrl		Crl:CD1(ICR)		BALB/cAnNCrl		C57BL/6JCrl		Crl:CD1(ICR)		BALB/cAnNCrl
	10⁸	10⁹	10⁸	10⁹	10⁸	10⁹	10⁸	10⁹	10⁸	10⁹	10⁸	10⁹
S. epidermidis WT^§	12±1^a	41.8±3^a	10±2.3^a	39.8±3.5^a	22.5±5.4^b	63.8±4.7^a	286±97^a	1,235±60^a	5,993±1,937^a	9,900±3,580^a	2,468±1,910^a	9,960±3,340^a
S. epidermidis hemB ^£	0^a	16.5±1^a	0^a	7.8±1.1^b	0^a	28.3±5.5^c	56±46^a	0^a	1,215±454^a	9,540±3,659^b	4,195±3,425^a	3,305±2,330^a ^, ^b
S. epidermidis CM⁺	27±2.7^a	26±4^a	8.75±1.6^a	55±2.3^b	19.5±6.5^a	68.8±5.5^b	3,917±1,497^a	3,220±2,161^a	807±536^a	404±39^a	5,800±2,333^a	11,524±8,168^a

four 8–12 week old male mice per bacterial- dose and phenotype were used.

CFUs: colony-forming unit,

^‡

SEM: standard error of the mean,

^§

WT: wild type,

^£

hemB: hemB knock-out mutant with small-colony-variant phenotype,

⁺

CM: complemented mutant of S. epidermidis hemB.

^a–c

Values with different superscripts within a row, assigned to the same infectious dose, and separated between abscess size and colonization vary significantly (p<0.05; Student's unpaired t-test).

Table 1. Abscess size and colonization of catheters according to dose of three Staphylococcus epidermidis strains in inbred C57BL/6JCrl , outbred Crl:CD1(ICR), and inbred BALB/cAnNCrl mice#.

Table 1. Abscess size and colonization of catheters according to dose of three Staphylococcus epidermidis strains in inbred C57BL/6JCrl , outbred Crl:CD1(ICR), and inbred BALB/cAnNCrl mice^#.