TABLE 2.
Summary of data from infant mouse competition assaysa
| Defect and strain | Mean CI |
|
|---|---|---|
| Deletion strain/WT | Complemented strain/WT | |
| 100–1,000-fold defect | ||
| ΔvopH | 0.0088 | 4.3700 |
| ΔvopA | 0.0029 | 0.5252 |
| ΔvopM | 0.0073 | 0.2612 |
| ΔvopI | 0.0090 | 0.0026 |
| ΔvopW | 0.0144 | 0.6715 |
| <20-fold defect | ||
| ΔvopF | 0.2776 | Previously reported (7) |
| ΔvopG | 0.0530 | 0.0308 |
| No defect | ||
| ΔvopE | 0.7007 | |
| vopX′ | 1.1009 | |
| ΔvopK | 1.1533 | |
| ΔvopY | 1.2108 | |
| ΔvopZ | 0.7902 | |
a
All strains were competed against an isogenic parental strain that was of the wild type (WT) for all T3SS loci (vop genes). A CI of ∼1 therefore represents a strain that colonized as well as the wild type, whereas a CI of <1 indicates a colonization defect.