Table 2.
Survival of Candida albicans on Digora and Vista plates after wiping with ethanol or 2-propanol
Concentration | Plate | 2-propanola | Ethanola |
≈109 organisms per ml | Digora | 2/5 | 0/0 |
Vista | 4/2 | 0/0 | |
≈105 organisms per ml | Digora | 0/0 | 0/0 |
Vista | 0/0 | 0/0 |
Number of colonies on agar plate; mean of duplicate measurements of repeated experiments.
The Digora® Optime Imaging Plate (size 2) is manufactured by Soredex PalaDEx Group Brenntag Nordic A/S (Hellerup, Denmark), and the VistaScan® Imaging Plate PLUS (size 2) by Dürr Dental AG (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).