Figure 8
From: Acute helminth infection enhances early macrophage mediated control of mycobacterial infection
Intracellular colony-forming units (CFU) numbers of alveolar macrophages (AMs), isolated from naive (solid circle) or Nippostrongylus brasiliensis (Nb)-only (solid square) infected mice, exposed in vitro to Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) bacilli (multiplicity of infection 10:1) for (a) 3 h or (b) 20 h. Graphs indicate combined results of two experiments with means±s.e.m. (c) Pulmonary CFU numbers at day 14 post BCG infection. Balb/c mice were adoptively transferred intranasally (IN) with AMs from naive (striped bar) or day-5 Nb-only (solid bar) infected from mice 1 day before and 1 day after IN BCG infection. Data are displayed as means±s.e.m. (ns, non significant; *P<0.05).
