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From: Permissiveness of bovine epithelial cells from lung, intestine, placenta and udder for infection with Coxiella burnetii

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Study design. Invasion and replication of C. burnetii in bovine epithelial cell lines were quantified applying two different infection strategies differing in the time the inocula were left with the cells. Strategy B included a washing step after 1 day; in strategy A, inocula were not removed for the duration of the experiment. “Invasion B” refers to the quantitation of cell-associated C. burnetii genome equivalents (GE) 24 h after inoculation (values obtained in experimental setting B2), “invasion A” to the quantitation of cell-associated GE after 7 days (values obtained in experimental setting A3), each normalized to the GE numbers detected in the supernatant regained immediately after inoculation (time point “0 h”; values obtained in experimental settings A1 and B1). Thus the invasion was calculated as follows: (A) x = (A3 × 100%)/A1 and (B) x = (B2 × 100%)/B1. Replication efficiency was calculated as the fold-increase in the number of cell-associated GE from day 1 (values obtained in experimental setting A2 and B2) to values at day 7 (obtained in experimental setting A3 and B3). Thus the replication efficiency was calculated as follows: (A) = A3/A2 and (B) = B3/B2. Arrow depict sampling event, i.e. taking off the supernatant, washing the cell monolayer and detachment of the cells.

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