Figure 1.
Bacterial growth of E. coli in the presence of the humoral fraction of whole hemolymph (0.25 μg/μL), from not infected (n) and infected (i) B. mori larvae. The bacterial growth after 3 h of incubation in culture broth was considered as the control (Ct3), assuming it as 100% of survival. The table resumes the growth of E. coli expressed as CFU/mL. Different letters within brackets (a,b) indicate significant differences (p < 0.05 Tukey test). C: control; n: plasma from not infected larvae; i: plasma from infected larvae.