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From: Human milk microbiota in sub-acute lactational mastitis induces inflammation and undergoes changes in composition, diversity and load

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Bacterial load in human milk of healthy mothers and mothers suffering lactational mastitis. Plots show means with standard errors. (a) Bacterial load, as inferred from qPCR of the 16S rRNA gene of the bacterial DNA. (b) Active bacterial load, as inferred from qPCR of the 16S rRNA gene of the bacterial RNA (cDNA). Controls_t0, (n = 24); Controls_t1, (n = 23); Mastitis_t0, (SAM, n = 24; AM, n = 3); Mastitis_t1, (SAM, n = 19; AM, n = 3). t0, samples collected during the course of mastitis symptoms, or first sample collected in healthy controls; t1, samples collected after the clinical symptoms disappeared, or samples collected from healthy controls one week after the first sample collection. Acute Mastitis samples are represented with white triangles in the graph. **p < 0.01 and ***p < 0.001, non-parametric Kruskal Wallis test. Created in GraphPad Prism 5 v5.04 (www.graphpad.com).

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