Iron Homeostasis in Tissues Is Affected during Persistent Chlamydia pneumoniae Infection in Mice

Table 1

Numbers of infected mice positive for C. pneumoniae in the lungs and liver with qPCR (DNA), qPCR (mRNA) or culture. Total number of animals infected on days 4, 8, 20, and 40 was 6, 6, 5, and 5, respectively.

Tissue and method	Day 4	Day 8	Day 20	Day 40
Lung culture	5/6	6/6	3/5	3/5
Lung qPCR (DNA)	6/6	6/6	3/5	4/5
Lung qPCR (mRNA)	3/6	4/6	0/5	0/5
Liver qPCR (DNA)	4/6	3/6	1/5	1/5
Liver qPCR (mRNA)	1/6	1/6	0/5	0/5