Fig. 1From: Sex-dependent vulnerability for Wistar rats model following intranasal instillation with Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 43816 causing lobar pneumoniaK. pneumoniae ATCC 43816 count in the blood and lung tissues of Wistar rats. Bacterial load in the blood (A: males and B: females) and lungs (C: males and D: females) of daily up to day 15 instillation of K. pneumoniae at 1.5 × 105, 1.5 × 106, 1.5 × 107 and 1.5 × 108 CFU/mL doses in Wistar rats. All results were mean ± SD of six animals per group. Bacterial count evolution was analysed using Dunnett’s post-test (*: p < 0.05; **: p < 0.01; ***: p < 0.001); K. pneumoniae ATCC 43816 infected groups at 1.5 × 105, 1.5 × 106, 1.5 × 107 and 1.5 × 108 CFU/mL doses vs not-infected groupBack to article page