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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2015 Jan 30;96(1):68–83. doi: 10.1111/mmi.12921

Table 1.

Infectivity of the Δbba33 mutant strain relative to its parent and genetic complement.

Strain Number of culture positive/total number
Inoculum dose Lymph node Skin Heart Spleen Bladder Joint All sites
ML23 pBBE22luc (parent) 103 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 24/24
105 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 24/24
HZ001 pBBE22luc (Δbba33) 103 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/24
105 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/4 0/24
107 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/3 0/18
HZ001 pHZ300 (Δbba33/bba33 Comp) 103 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 24/24
105 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4 24/24