Table 1.
System | MIC parameters |
MFC parameters |
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Curve fitting |
MIC90 (mM) | Curve fitting |
MFC (mM) | |||||
R2adj | F | k | R2adj | F | k | |||
Free-floating culture | ||||||||
Four day old | 0.933 | 762.0 | 0.599 ± 0.027 | 3.9 | 0.884b | 133.97 | 0.862 ± 0.148 | 7.0 |
Seven day old | 0.878 | 231.7 | 2.114 ± 0.26 | 1.1 | 0.848 | 196.5 | 0.667 ± 0.084 | 3.5 |
Biofilm culture | ||||||||
Four day old | 0.938 | 1,300.3 | 0.185 ± 0.008 | 12.4 | 0.954 | 1,561.6 | 0.137 ± 0.007 | 16.7 |
Seven day old | 0.979 | 1,792.7 | 0.190 ± 0.009 | 12.2 | 0.978 | 2,060.7 | 0.101 ± 0.004 | 22.7 |
R2adj, coefficient of determination adjusted by the degrees of freedom; F, Fisher-Snedecor coefficient; k, exponential decay coefficient ± the relative standard error.
Best fit with a three-term exponential decay function.