Table 4.

Number of particle tracks per bacterial strain for each set of experiments.

	Ex vivo					In vitro
	WT	ΔmucA	Δpel	Δpsl	ΔpelΔpsl	WT	ΔmucA	Δpel	Δpsl	ΔpelΔpsl
24 h	69	43	77	92	154	301	396	235	177	1309
48 h	131	143	490	38	140	1233	629	187	439	1588

In vitro data reproduced from ref. ²⁵ with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry.