Figure 2.
Replication of C. burnetii strains in bovine (A) and human MDM (B) measured by TCID50 assay (left) and qPCR (right). Cells were inoculated with C. burnetii strains (100 MOI, 1 h). Numbers of viable bacteria (TCID50 assay, n = 3) and of genome equivalents (GE; qPCR, n = 6) were quantified at 1, 7, and 14 day p. i.. Results per C. burnetii strain are shown as individual curves or as box-whisker plots. Strains are indicated by numbers as listed in Table 1.
