Fig. 9

Bacterial adherence of A. baumannii AYE, AYE-ΔBLP1 and AYE-ΔBLP2 strains to A549 bronchial epithelial cells. Cell surface-associated bacteria after 60 min incubation at 37 °C. Asterisks denote statistically significant (p <0.001) differences in the degree of cell adhesion of AYE and derivative clones