Table 1.

Monocytes infected by L. infantum strains are greater than 100-fold less effective at controlling Leishmania.

	L.b. 2904	L.i. BH46	L.i. wild
Fold dilution differencea	1	607 ± 143	122 ± 48

^aPBMC from four donors were infected as described in Section “Materials and Methods” and then submitted to serial dilution in Schneider’s media. The last dilution with positive Leishmania growth was set at 1 and used to calculate the fold increase in dilution with positive Leishmania for the other strains. The data are represented as average ± SE from four separate cultures.