Figure 3
From: Cirrhosis-induced defects in innate pulmonary defenses against Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neutrophil-mediated killing of three S. pneumoniae strains within the lungs of cirrhotic and control rats (n = 5–6). After a 5 hour LPS-induced neutrophil recruitment period, rats were challenged transtracheally with 1 × 106 of S. pneumoniae and killing was quantified exactly 1 hour later. Significantly fewer ATCC 6303 organisms were killed by cirrhotic rats than by control rats (* p = .001).