Fig. 4.

Single-species infection of ex vivo rabbit (a) and human (b) corneas. Ex vivo corneas were scratched six times with a scalpel and exposed to single-species inoculum of S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, C. albicans or F. solani for 24 h at 37 °C. The models were then homogenised, and the resulting suspension serially diluted and plated onto agar plates. The number of colony-forming units per cornea were plotted for each cornea. The box plot shows the minimum and maximum values depicted by the bars; the upper quartile, median and lower quartile are depicted by the top, middle and bottom horizontal lines, respectively