TABLE 4.
Glucuronic acid content of encapsulated K. pneumoniae parents strains and their decapsulated mutants
| CPS serotype | Strain | Glucuronic acid (μg/ml)/ 109 bacteriaa
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent strain | Mutant | ||
| K2 | Caroli | 15.0 | 5.5 |
| 591 | 48.1 | 1.2 | |
| K7 | 37 | 21.0 | 3.3 |
| 58 | 24.0 | 3.3 | |
| K21 | 151 | 4.5 | 1.2 |
| 557 | 5.3 | 2.5 | |
Mean of three independent experiments.