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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2009 Sep;28(8):918–926. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181a81835

Table 3.

Thickness of biofilms formed by bacterial species on silicone hydrogel contact lenses

Species Mean ± SD 95% Confidence Interval for Mean P – value (versus)
Lower Bound Upper Bound P. aeruginosa S. marcescens S. aureus
P. aeruginosa 57.33 ± 3.05 49.74 64.92 - .002 <.001
S. marcescens 43.33 ± 3.51 34.60 52.05 .002 - .018
S. aureus 34.00 ± 1.00 31.51 36.48 <.001 .018 -

SD – Standard deviation.