Figure 5From: Innate immune response in experimentally induced bovine intramammary infection with Staphylococcus simulans and S. epidermidisSomatic cell count (a) and concentrations of IL-1β (b), TNF-α (c) and IL-8 (d) in the milk in persistent (-□-) and spontaneously eliminated (-■-) S. epidermidis and S. simulans intramammary infections during the two-week study period (mean ± SEM, n = 11 persisted infections and 5 spontaneously eliminated infections; TNF-α n = 10 + 5). The SCC is expressed as a natural logarithm (ln) of cells/mL.Back to article page