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. 2018 Apr 27;8:6685. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25034-2

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Fecal P. aeruginosa loads over time following peroral infection of mice suffering from chronic colitis. Conventionally colonized IL-10−/− mice with chronic colitis (black circles) were perorally infected with a multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa strain on day (d) 0. Wildtype mice without large intestinal inflammation (white circles) served as (infected) controls. (a) Intestinal colonization densities were determined in fecal samples until d28 postinfection by culture and expressed as colony forming units per gram (CFU/g). (b) Upon necropsy at day 42 postinfection, pathogenic loads were cultured from distinct compartments of the gastrointestinal tract (i.e. stomach, duodenum, ileum and colon). Numbers of mice harboring P. aeruginosa out of the total number of analyzed mice, medians (black bars) and significance levels (p-values) determined by Mann Whitney U test are indicated (*p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001). Data shown were pooled from at least three independent experiments.