Validation of bath infection model using an attenuated strain of P. aeruginosa. (A) Kaplan?Meier representation of survival after microinjection of approximately 3500 CFUs of wild-type or ?oprF GFP-expressing P. aeruginosa into the caudal vein (CV) of embryos. Pools of three biologically independent replicates are shown (in each experiment 20 embryos were used per strain). (B) Kaplan?Meier representation of survival after bath infection of injured embryos with wild-type or ?oprF GFP-expressing P. aeruginosa at approximately 108 CFU/mL. Pools of three biologically independent replicates are shown for each survival curve (in each experiment 20 embryos were used per strain).
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