Fig. 8.

Killing assay. A killing assay was conducted with determination of the count of the surviving bacteria without the supernatant. The set point in the picture refers to the initial bacterial count: 0 min is defined as the time point of the first sample collection, which is immediately after mixing of the bacteria and ctriporin, and the other samples were collected at 5, 15, 30, and 60 min. All of the counts were the average of three dishes. The experiment was repeated with similar results.