Figure 1.
Cell adherence capacity of A. baumannii clinical strains to A549 pneumocytes. The CFU/well values of 11 A. baumannii strains were examined after exposure to A549 cells. Bars indicate the standard error of three separate experiments. Assessments of skewness, kurtosis and the Shapiro–Wilk normality test were undertaken. *** represents a p-value of < 0.001 as determined by an analysis of variance test, between ATCC 17978 and the clinical isolate.