Kinetics of <i>Pneumocystis carinii</i> air shedding and lung burden in Sprague Dawley rats inoculated intratracheally at day 0 with 10⁶ cryopreserved <i>P. carinii</i> organisms.

<p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062155#pone-0062155-g001" target="_blank"><b>Figure 1a</b>:</a> experiment 1; <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062155#pone-0062155-g001" target="_blank"><b>Figure 1b</b>:</a> experiment 2. In each experiment, the total number of <i>P. carinii</i> organisms was determined by qPCR in lung samples (red bars) and in air samples (green bars).</p

Kinetics of anti-<i>Pneumocystis</i> antibody titres in Sprague Dawley rats inoculated intratracheally at day 0 with 10⁶ cryopreserved <i>P. carinii</i> organisms.

<p><a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062155#pone-0062155-g002" target="_blank"><b>Figure 2a</b>:</a> experiment 1; <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062155#pone-0062155-g002" target="_blank"><b>Figure 2b</b>:</a> experiment 2. In each experiment, anti-<i>Pneumocystis</i> IgG (blue squares) and IgM (orange circles) antibody titres were determined by an indirect immunofluorescence assay.</p