Fig. 3From: Diverse proinflammatory response in pharyngeal epithelial cells upon interaction with Neisseria meningitidis carriage and invasive isolatesAdhesion (A) and cell death (B) in epithelial cells exposed to N. meningitidis of case (gray) and carriage (white) isolates of serogroups B (invasive n = 2, carriage n = 1), C (invasive n = 3, carriage n = 2), W (invasive n = 7, carriage n = 3) and Y (invasive n = 2, carriage n = 2). Box plots represent the median, 1st and 3rd quartiles and min/max from 5 experiments for each isolate. Differences between serogroups were calculated using one-way ANOVA using Kruskal‒Wallis testing and Dunn’s multiple comparison corrections, and differences between invasive and carriage isolates within each serogroup were calculated using a Mann‒Whitney testBack to article page