Table I.

Quantification of bacteria recovered from animals 14 days after inoculation with various quantities of bacteria, given in colony forming units (SEM, standard error of the mean)

	Quantity of colony-forming units
	1 × 101	1 × 102	1 × 103	1 × 104	1 × 105
Bone mean	0	7.21 × 104	7.83 × 105	1.11 × 105	1.51 × 105
Bone SEM	0	4.40 × 104	1.35 × 105	1.92 × 104	1.95 × 104
Implant mean	0	9.82 × 104	1.65 × 105	2.58 × 104	5.11 × 104
Implant SEM	0	5.10 × 104	1.61 × 105	3.16 × 103	9.11 × 103