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From: Virulence of Mycobacterium intracellulare clinical strains in a mouse model of lung infection – role of neutrophilic inflammation in disease severity

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Kinetics of bacterial growth in the lungs, liver, and spleen of C57BL/6 mice infected with M. intracellulare strains. The lungs, liver, and spleen of five mice were sectioned per strain at each time-point. Each point represents CFUs per organ from a single animal. Lines between timepoints indicate the moving average. Blue: lungs, Red: liver, Green: spleen. No colonies were recovered in some samples of low virulence strains (Additional file 3 in detail). *: The CFUs in the lungs were statistically significantly different compared with those at day 1 after infection. TMI: typical M. intracellulare genotype, MP-MIP: M. paraintracellulare-M. indicus pranii genotype, CP: clinically progressive cases, CS: clinically stable cases, TS: type strain

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