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Figure 3

From: First arrived takes all: inhibitory priority effects dominate competition between co-infecting Borrelia burgdorferi strains

Figure 3

The primary strain induced a strong strain-specific adaptive immune response. The secondary strain did not alter immune response. Each panel shows one of nine co-infection treatments. Antibody profiles are similar within columns, which share the primary strain, but differ among rows, which share the secondary strain. This pattern indicates that the primary strain dominated the antibody response and that antibody profiles differed among primary strains (Additional file 1: Table S6 and S7). Arrows indicate the timing of the primary and secondary inoculation. Shown are the mean antibody titers (± S.E.) for total IgG (black diamond), anti-flagellin IgG (white diamond), anti-OspCA IgG (blue circle), anti-OspCK (red square), and anti-OspCN (green triangle). To facilitate viewing, absolute differences in scale among the five antibody variables were removed by standardizing them to z-scores (mean = 0, stdev = 1).

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