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. 2020 Feb 28;10:3690. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-60452-1

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) Outline of corticosteroid dosages, dosing frequency, and duration of administration. X in X/7 indicates days of treatment per week. Treatments began one week prior to infection. The treatment group naming convention is as follows: first two letters indicate corticosteroid administered (CN = cortisone, DX = dexamethasone), third letter indicates a different treatment regimen using that corticosteroid (A or B for cortisone or A, B, or C for dexamethasone). Duration of treatment is indicated by length of the lines, with changes in regimen indicated by line segmentation at the relevant time points. As controls, mice that did not receive corticosteroids were also included. Sacrifices were performed 24 hours post infection (D0) and then at weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7 post infection. (B) Study and treatment outline for testing the efficacy of intranasal administration of biapenem in comparison to subcutaneous administration. Mice were sacrificed 24 hours post infection (D0) to enumerate implantation, at 1 week post infection to enumerate bacterial burden prior to antibiotic treatment period, and then at 2 weeks post infection/1 week post antibiotic treatment to evaluate treatment efficacies.