At 72 h after infection, the number of the LVS in the lung of the control mice declined to 2 × 104 CFU/mL, as well as the bacterial count in the lung of Atg5-deficient mice declined to 2 × 103 CFU/mL (p = 0.005) (n = 3) (Figure 2). This evidence concerns the gene ATG5 and infection.