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Daily inhalation of DEPs increases lung and blood bacterial loads during pneumococcal pneumonia in resistant mice. BALB/c mice were exposed daily to PBS or DEPs before (and following) infection with pneumococci. Mice were culled at 24 or 72 hours postinfection to assess lung (A) and blood (B) CFUs.**P < .01; NS = nonsignificant; n = 12 to 15 per group, per time point.
