Table 5.

Biofilm and anti-biofilm formation of tested pathogenic bacteria isolates treated with Sub (MICs) concentrations of ARLE.

Pathogenic bacteria isolates		Sub (MICs) concentrations mg/mL
		0.00	3.00	1.50	0.750	0.375	0.184
Biofilm formation O.D	E. coli	1.12a	0.32i	0.54f.	0.62e	0.68d	0.72c
	P. aeruginosa	1.25a	0.25j	0.49 h	0.52 fg	0.61e	0.68d
	B. cereus	0.69d	0.02o	0.09n	0.12 m	0.19kl	0.21 k
	S. aureus	0.85b	0.04o	0.08n	0.13 m	0.18 l	0.20 k
Biofilm reduction (%)	E.coli	0 0.0	71.4	51.8	44.6	44.0	35.7
	P. aeruginosa	0 0.0	80.0	60.8	58.4	51.2	45.6
	B. cereus	0 0.0	97.1	87.0	82.6	72.5	69.5
	S. aureus	0 0.0	95.3	90.6	84.7	78.8	76.5

Values with the same letter do not significantly differ from each other, according to¹⁷, at a 5% level.