Abscess size and colonization of catheters according to dose of three <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> strains in inbred C57BL/6JCrl , outbred Crl:CD1(ICR), and inbred BALB/cAnNCrl mice^#.

#four 8–12 week old male mice per bacterial- dose and phenotype were used. *CFUs: colony-forming unit, ‡SEM: standard error of the mean, §WT: wild type, £hemB: hemB knock-out mutant with small-colony-variant phenotype, +CM: complemented mutant of S. epidermidis hemB. a–cValues with different superscripts within a row, assigned to the same infectious dose, and separated between abscess size and colonization vary significantly (p<0.05; Student's unpaired t-test).