Gastrointestinal tract distribution of Salmonella enteritidis in orally infected mice with a species-specific fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction

Table 1 Distribution and quantity of S. enteritidis in different time and segment of gastrointestinal tract in orally infection mice (lg copies/g)

Time	DuodeNum	Jejunum	Ileum	Cecum	Colon	Rectum	Esophagus	Stomach
30 min	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1 h	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2 h	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
4 h	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
8 h	0.0	2.3	2.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
12 h	1.2	2.5	2.8	2.1	1.3	1.6	0.0	0.0
16 h	1.5	3.3	3.2	2.6	1.3	1.6	1.1	0.0
18 h	2.2	3.3	3.6	3.0	2.2	1.8	1.2	1.0
24 h	3.0	4.0	4.2	3.9	2.6	2.1	1.4	1.2
36 h	3.3	6.2	6.6	5.4	2.6	3.5	2.6	1.9
2 d	2.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	1.6	2.6	1.6	1.7
3 d	1.2	3.0	2.8	3.6	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.2
4 d	0.0	2.5	2.3	3.4	0.0	1.1	0.0	0.0
5 d	0.0	1.5	1.3	3.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0