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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2005 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Lett Appl Microbiol. 2004;39(5):420–424. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2004.01601.x

Table 1.

Biofilm formation on acrylic under the different conditions used, in μg biofilm mass mm−2 of acrylic

Strain 24 h batch 72 h batch 72 h fed-batch
9142 1.5 (±0.4)* 4.9 (±1.4)* 16.8 (±4.5)
9142-M10 0.2 (±0.1) 0.5 (±0.2) 1.2 (±0.5)
FJ6 2.6 (±0.4)* 4.2 (±1.2)* 5.6 (±2.2)
JI6 2.1 (±0.4)* 3.6 (±1.4)* 10.2 (±2.3)
LE7 1.9 (±0.4)* 3.8 (±1.3)* 4.2 (±2.3)
PE9 2.5 (±0.4)* 5.6 (±1.0)* 12.4 (±4.8)
*

The 24 h batch is significantly different from 72 h batch (P < 0.05, paired t-test).

Significantly higher biofilm formation compared with other strains grown under the same conditions (P < 0.05, anova and Tukey’s multiple comparison test).