Figure 1. B. pseudomallei and B. thailandensis are inherently resistant to killing by human neutrophils.

(A) B. pseudomallei and B. thailandensis were either incubated with neutrophils for 10 min to measure bacterial uptake (% bacterial input) or (B) for 2 h to measure bacterial survival (fold change from respective uptake values) as described in the Materials and Methods. The bars represent the mean±SEM of three separate experiments using neutrophils from different donors, each performed in duplicate. * indicates a statistically significant difference (P≤0.05) between B. pseudomallei and B. thailandensis values.