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. 2016 Jul 14;12(7):e1005758. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005758

Fig 6. Histopathology of C. difficile infected tissues.

Fig 6

Representative images of sections of colon and caeca collected from uninfected mice or mice infected with different strains of C. difficile, fixed and strained with PAS-Alcian blue. Red brackets ([) indicate crypt hyperplasia, arrow heads (▲) represent surface epithelial damage and asterisks (*) represent oedema and inflammation. Scale bars (200 μm) are shown in yellow. Histopathology damage scores from uninfected or infected colons (b) and caeca (c). Data represent the mean ± SEM ****, p ≤ 0.0001.