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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Oral Microbiol Immunol. 2007 Jun;22(3):152–161. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2007.00336.x

Table 3.

Percentage of colony-forming unit (CFU) recovered with various plaque and saliva combinations

Subject 1H1 plaque Subject 2H plaque Subject 3H plaque Subject 4H plaque Subject 1P plaque Subject 2P plaque
Subject 1H saliva 1002 0.5 2.2 3.9 2.0 1.0
Subject 2H saliva 6.1 100 1.9 1.9 ND3 ND
Subject 3H saliva 0.1 6.3 100 0.8 ND ND
Subject 4H saliva 0.2 5.2 8.3 100 0.1 0.5
Subject P1 saliva 3.5 2.7 ND 0.3 100 19
Subject P2 saliva 0.3 0.5 ND 0.8 6 100
1

H, healthy subject; P, periodontally diseased subject.

2

CFUs recovered when plaque and saliva from the same source was used for cultivation of biofilms was arbitrarily taken as 100%.

3

ND, not determined, biofilm detached prematurely.