Fig. 8
Survival (A) and blood bacterial burden at 12 h (B) and 24 h post-infection (C) of C57BL/6 mice following intraperitoneal inoculation of the S. suis serotype 31 reference strain 92-4172 (black) and the S. suis serotype 31 unencapsulated strain 43640 (purple). Data represent survival curves (A) (n = 15) or geometric mean (B, C) (n = number of surviving mice at each time point). * p < 0.05 indicates a significant difference between survival or blood bacterial burden of mice infected with unencapsulated strain compared to those of mice infected with the reference strain.
