Figure 7.

Desiccation resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii ΔmtlD‐otsB. Wild type (○, ●) and the markerless deletion mutant ΔmtlD‐otsB (Δ, ▲) were grown overnight in mineral medium and washed and dried in H₂O (empty symbols, starting value 2‐6.4 × 10⁷ CFU per filter) or grown in mineral medium supplied with 200 mM NaCl, followed by washing and drying in 200 mM NaCl (filled symbols, starting value 6.4 × 10⁶–1.9 × 10⁷ CFU per filter). For each experiment, mean values of at least four biological replicates are shown. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean (SEM)