Figure 4.
Representative results of a G. mellonella killing assay of the specified strains. Larvae (n = 10 per group) were inoculated with ~ 105 CFU of the indicated A. baumannii strain. All assays were carried out at least three times. For clarity, the results of a representative assay are presented separately and compared with those obtained with the wild-type (WT) strain (dotted line). In strains marked with an asterisk (*), virulence was significantly reduced (P < 0.05) compared with the parental strain (MAR002). In those cases, the survival of worms inoculated with the complemented mutants is also shown (discontinued line). The motility profile of the inoculated strain is indicated by the colored background of each graph