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. 2015 Mar 1;8:135. doi: 10.1186/s13071-015-0736-2

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Short-term experiment showing antibacterial activity in the midgut of Rhodnius prolixus infected with Trypanosoma rangeli. The antibacterial activities of anterior midgut of R. prolixus 5th instar nymphs 7 days after infection with T. rangeli were tested against (A) S. marcescens (B) S. aureus (C) E. coli. Treatments: white columns – control, uninfected group; black columns – infected group. Fifth instar nymphs were fed on inactivated blood with or without 1 × 106 epimastigotes/mL. Antibacterial activity value was measured using the turbidimetric assay (TB) (OD550 nm) after 19 h incubation of midgut samples with different bacteria and calculated by the difference between the optical densities of the midgut samples and bacterial control. Bars represent mean ± SEM of three independent experiments. Each experiment consisted of three pools of three insects (n = 9). Means were compared using t-test; ***p < 0.001 and NS = not significant.