Hemolytic activities of α-hemolysin produced by <i>S. aureus</i> cultured with graded subinhibitory concentrations of thymol.

<p><i>^a</i>The drug-free culture supernatants served as 100% hemolysis.</p><p>NO. means no hemolytic activity was observed.</p><p>Values represent the mean and standard error of three independent experiments.</p>*<p>, <i>p</i><0.05 and</p>**<p>, <i>p</i><0.01 compared to the corresponding control.