Evidence for antimicrobial activity associated with common house spider silk

BMC Research Notes

Table 1 Table of absorbance readings of growth of B. subtilis when exposed to the silk of T. domestica

Trial No.	Control absorbance reading	Silk sample reading	Inhibition %	Sign test
1	0.34	0.315	7.352941	+
2	0.34	0.28	17.64706	+
3	0.32	0.28	12.5	+
4	0.57	0.54	5.263158	+
5	0.5	0.54	−8	-
6	0.585	0.582	0.512821	+
7	0.575	0.57	0.869565	+
8	0.63	0.44	30.15873	+
9	1.22	0.57	53.27869	+
10	1.29	0.42	67.44186	+
11	0.61	0.56	8.196721	+
12	0.58	0.53	8.62069	+
13	0.6	0.5	16.66667	+
14	0.71	0.77	−8.4507	-
15	0.64	0.55	14.0625	+
16	1.03	1.06	−2.91262	-
17	0.95	0.96	−1.05263	-
18	2.1	2	4.761905	+

ISSN: 1756-0500