By western blot, our results demonstrated a 9% increase in the expression of α-SMA was observed after 6 h of infection (hpi) (t = 3.320, df = 6, P = 0.0160), achieving its maximum at 24 hpi (12%) (t = 7.072, df = 7, P = 0.0002). Here, ACTA1 is linked to infection.