Table 1.
Bacterial colony counts (in cfu) from infected guinea pigs
| BCG group |
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| Animal no. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Lung | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Spleen | 0 | TNTC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Liver | 0 | TNTC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| Kidney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Brain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Eye | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MLN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Saline group |
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| Animal no. | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Lung | 29 | 34 | TNTC | 4 | 0 | 41 | TNTC | TNTC | ||
| Spleen | TNTC | 13 | TNTC | 0 | 0 | TNTC | TNTC | TNTC | ||
| Liver | 52 | 18 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 28 | TNTC | TNTC | ||
| Kidney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Brain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Eye | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| MLN | 52 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | ||
MLN, mediastinal lymph node; TNTC, too numerous to count.
Colonies were counted after a 1:10 dilution of tissue homogenates.
Cells for animals 14 and 16 are blank due to missing data.