Table 2. Antibacterial Efficacy of PVC–SNAP–PEI–NAC Composites against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria.
| sample | change compared to PVC control | E. coli |
S. aureus |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adhered | planktonic | adhered | planktonic | ||
| PVC–PEI | log reduction | 0.16 ± 0.08 | 0.03 ± 0.04 | 1.62 ± 0.22 | 0.36 ± 0.03 |
| percent reduction | 29.60 ± 12.35 | 7.20 ± 8.96 | 97.32 ± 1.20 | 55.88 ± 3.27 | |
| PVC–PEI–NAC | log reduction | 0.44 ± 0.36 | 0.07 ± 0.16 | 1.41 ± 0.25 | 0.05 ± 0.19 |
| percent reduction | 54.46 ± 27.37 | 10.90 ± 34.34 | 95.53 ± 1.81 | 1.20 ± 53.11 | |
| PVC–SNAP | log reduction | 0.86 ± 0.24 | 0.62 ± 0.03 | 1.34 ± 0.11 | 1.10 ± 0.18 |
| percent reduction | 84.48 ± 8.57 | 76.11 ± 1.86 | 95.29 ± 1.24 | 91.25 ± 4.19 | |
| PVC–SNAP–PEI–NAC | log reduction | 1.69 ± 0.21 | 1.57 ± 0.04 | 2.47 ± 1.43 | 3.37 ± 0.11 |
| percent reduction | 97.7 ± 1.1 | 97.29 ± 0.26 | 99.95 ± 0.02 | 99.96 ± 0.01 | |