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Table I.
Weekly total number of colony forming units (CFU) per mL of blood for dogs, cats and guinea pigs experimentally inoculated with B. rochalimae.
| Week | Bacteremia (CFU/mL) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dogs |
Cats |
Guinea pigs (N = 6) |
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| D1* | D2 | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 392 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 5.5 × 104 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | 72 | 3.3 × 104 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | 5 × 103 | 1.2 × 103 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 47 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 191 | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 107 | 12 | 0 |
| 8 | 57 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 46 | 0 |
| 9 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ND |
| 10 | 0 | 512 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ND |
| 11 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ND |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ND |
| 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ND |
| 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ND |
| 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ND |