Fig. 3From: Ultraviolet C inactivation of Coxiella burnetii for production of a structurally preserved whole cell vaccine antigenEffect of UVC treatment on the bacterial shape of C. burnetii NMII. Changes of the bacterial diameter (nm) are displayed for NMII bacteria before UVC treatment (-1), after 24 h (+ 24) and 48 h (+ 48) incubation as well as for UVC treated NMII 1 h (+ 1), 24 h (+ 24) and 48 h (+ 48) after UVC exposure at 100 µW/cm2 for 20 min. The results presented as Tukey box plots represent the average of three independent experiments. Statistically significant differences are indicated by p-values of < 0.05 (*), < 0.01 (**), and < 0.001 (***)Back to article page