Investigation into limiting dilution and tick transmissibility phenotypes associated with attenuation of the S24 vaccine strain

Table 2 Cloning by limiting dilution of the B. bovis S17.2 vaccine strain for group 1 (Table 1)

Bv80 genotype classification according to alleles and base pairs	Theoretical no. of B. bovis parasites in 4 ml inoculum	No. of splenectomized cattle inoculated	No. of single genotype clonal lines obtained by limiting dilution
	Theoretical no. of B. bovis parasites in 4 ml inoculum	No. of splenectomized cattle inoculated	A535	A558
A558; A627	3	8	2 (25)^a	4 (50)^a
A645; B585

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