Figure 2From: The influence of in vitro fitness defects on pneumococcal ability to colonize and to cause invasive diseaseExperiments with insertion-deletion mutants in the TIGR4 background. A) Generation times in c+y medium. B) Growth curves in c+y medium. C) Growth curves in TH medium. D) Survival of mice after intranasal infection. E) Generation time of mutants versus survival of infected mice. F) Colonization of mice 8 days after intranasal infection.Back to article page