Table 1.

Proteins and carbohydrates contents of individual lysates obtained by alkaline or mechanical lysis as described in Methods.

	Proteins (mg/ml)		Carbohydrates (mg/ml)
	Alkaline PABL	Mechanical PMBL	Alkaline PABL	Mechanical PMBL
Staphylococcus aureus	0.21 ± 0.01	0.51 ± 0.02	0.02 ± 0.01	0.49 ± 0.06
Klebsiella pneumoniae	1.02 ± 0.01	1.29 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.04	0.40 ± 0.01
Streptococcus pneumoniae	0.18 ± 0.01	0.41 ± 0.01	0.71 ± 0.09	0.70 ± 0.05
Haemophilus influenzae	0.24 ± 0.01	0.49 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.04	0.18 ± 0.09
Polyvalent lysate	0.22 ± 0.01	0.59 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.01	0.46 ± 0.01

The data represent the mean of n=3 replicate ± standard deviation (S.D.) and are representative of at least 3 distinct batches of each culture.