Fig. 3
Effect 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 (***)