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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2017 Feb 2;35(9):1273–1280. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.01.029

Figure 1. The humoral immune response plays a role in host defense against GBS colonization.

Figure 1

(A) Vaginal CFU/mL GBS at 48 hr post-colonization of µMT mice vs. WT mice shows similar initial colonization densities. (B) Kaplan-Meier curve demonstrates significantly prolonged vaginal GBS colonization in µMT mice, 10 mice per group (P<0.05, log-rank). (C) Vaginal CFU/mL GBS at 48 hrs post-colonization of FcRn-KO mice vs. WT mice. (D) FcRn-KO mice have significantly prolonged vaginal GBS colonization, 5 mice per group (P<0.005, log-rank).