Table 4.

Antibacterial activity of the Eristalis tenax AMPs under simulated physiological conditions ^a.

	MIC (µg/mL) a,b
	EtCec1			EtCec2			EtCec2-NH2
Strain	CAMB	NaCl	CaCl2	CAMB	NaCl	CaCl2	CAMB	NaCl
Escherichia coli ATCC 25922	16	16	16	64	64	128	32	32
E. coli RKI 131/08	16	16	32	32	32	64	16	16
E. coli RKI 6A-6	32	nd	nd	256	nd	nd	64	nd
Klebsiella pneumoniae DSM 30104	8	32	32	32	16	32	16	32
K. pneumoniae RKI 93/10	16	32	32	128	256	256	64	256
Enterobacter cloacae RKI 146/09	32	32	64	64	128	128	32	64
Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606	16	16	32	32	8	64	8	8
A. baumannii RKI 19/09	16	16	nd	16	16	nd	8	16
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia RKI 136/09	64	32	nd	512	256	nd	256	512
K. pneumoniae RKI 68/16	64	nd	nd	256	nd	nd	128	nd
K. pneumoniae RKI 268/15	64	nd	nd	256	nd	nd	64	nd

^a MIC values (n=3)were determined in cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton broth (CAMB) and in CAMB adjusted to 150 mM NaCl (NaCl) or 1.25 mM CaCl₂ (CaCl₂). ^b nd represents values which were not determined.