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From: Strategies of exploitation of mammalian reservoirs by Bartonella species

Figure 4

Role of B. birtlesii BadA in complement inactivation. (A) Wild type (WT) and a badA-knockout mutant (ΔbadA) of B. birtlesii were incubated with foetal calf serum at 35°C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere for one hour then plated onto Columbia blood agar plates. Plates were incubated at 35°C in a 5% CO2 atmosphere for 5 days then colony forming units were counted. N = 6 +/− SE. (B) As described in (A) except that foetal calf serum was heated at 56°C for 30 min to inactivate the complement prior to use. N = 6 +/− SE.

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