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From: Roles of iron acquisition systems in virulence of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli: salmochelin and aerobactin contribute more to virulence than heme in a chicken infection model

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Colonization in organs of chickens challenged with APEC E058, UPEC U17, or their isogenic mutants in the single-strain challenge model. Data are presented as log10(CFU/g) of tissues. Horizontal bars indicate the mean log10 CFU.g-1 values. Each data point represents a tissue sample from an individual infected chicken at 24h post-infection. Organs sampled were the heart (a), liver (b), spleen (c), lung (d), and kidney (e). Statistically significant decreases in bacterial loads are indicated with asterisks (*, P<0.05; * *, P<0.01).

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