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. 2020 Feb;70(1):45–55. doi: 10.30802/AALAS-CM-19-000047

Table 1.

Bacterial colony counts (in cfu) from infected guinea pigs

BCG group
 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
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.