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Deletion of bvaP increases the average chain length of GBS A909 bacterial cells. (A) Representative images of crystal violet-stained planktonic cultures grown overnight (bars = 10 μm). (B) Average number of cells per chain observed in at least 200 bacterial chains of the WT (blue), ΔbvaP (red), and ΔbvaP/pLT004 (purple) strains. Data were statistically analyzed using one-way ANOVA (****, P > 0.0001; ns, not significant).
