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.