Fig. 2

Cytological findings in the blood during the course of infection. The absolute numbers of mature and immature neutrophils (a: total, segmented, band neutrophils, b: metamyelocytes) prior to and at 2, 5 and 8 hpi of control (n = 4) and infected (n = 6) animals are shown. Box-plots show median (line within the box), 25^th and the 75^th percentiles (box), 1.5 times the interquartile range (whiskers) and outliers (circles and triangles). *p ≤ 0.05 Wilcoxon rank sum test in comparison to control, # p ≤ 0.05 Wilcoxon signed-rank test in comparison to sampling prior to infection within the same group