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. 2019 Feb 15;10:207. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00207

Table 4.

C. burnetii HLA class II epitope immunogenicity in tgHLA-DR3 mice.

Peptide ID No. of mice respondingd Mouse 1/3 Mouse 2/3 Mouse 3/3
SFUa SIb p-valuec SFUa SIb p-valuec SFUa SIb p-valuec
p2 2 120 6.63 0.0003 141 8.28 < 0.0001 18 1.53 0.1384
p10 2 256 5.80 < 0.0001 82 4.51 0.0043 43 2.00 0.0496
p14 2 157 7.94 0.0006 371 20.21 0.0001 11 1.42 0.0149
p16 1 180 8.94 0.0007 27 2.05 0.0060 19 1.94 0.0164
p23 2 69 2.30 0.0038 21 1.89 0.0372 63 2.47 0.0172
p28 2 63 3.76 0.0013 54 3.79 0.0094 41 2.63 0.0227
p31 1 0 0.88 0.1143 14 1.72 0.0621 84 4.32 0.0007
p32 2 64 3.82 0.0053 70 4.62 0.0103 28 2.11 0.0609
p36 2 52 3.44 0.0468 55 3.86 0.0193 0 0.86 0.2215
p41 1 87 5.06 0.0052 30 2.55 0.0433 0 0.98 0.3566
p43 3 135 4.88 0.0001 65 3.04 0.0013 116 4.48 0.0001
a

Average number of spot forming units (SFU) per million splenocytes from triplicate wells; the average number of SFU/million in medium only control wells was subtracted. Negative values were assigned 0.

b

Stimulation index (SI) calculated as average number of SFUs in peptide stimulated wells over medium only control wells.

c

SFUs in peptide stimulated wells from immunized mice compared to mock-immunized mice by Student's t-test.

d

Mice are deemed responsive to a peptide if their SFU is >50 and if their SI is >2 and if their p-value is lower than 0.05.