At 24 hours of infection, there was a significant lower activities of CAT (50.55 ± 6.48, p < 0.01), SOD (3.402 ± 0.57, p < 0.05) and GPx (1.073 ± 0.13, p < 0.01) were observed in GTII bMECs. This evidence concerns the gene SOD1 and infection.