Figure 3. Confocal imaging of BacLight Live/Dead staining of LAD2 co-cultures with a control and CRSwNP S. aureus strain.
Control S. aureus strain . Two images of co-infection of LAD2 cells with a control S. aureus strain. Few S. aureusbacteria appear within the intracellular compartment (red arrows) with some dead bacteria seen within the cell (purple arrows).
CRSwNP S. aureus strain . Two images of co-infection of LAD2 cells with a CRSwNP S. aureus strain. Significant numbers ofS. aureus appear within live cells (red arrows) with multiple apoptotic cell bodies containing a large number of live and dead bacteria (blue arrows).
Live bacteria and live cell nuclei compartments stain green while dead bacteria and dead nuclei stain red.