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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014 Sep;134(3):412e–419e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000000434

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Normalized absorbance of hardware as measured by indirect staining of biofilm adherent to the fracture plate and screws in both the diabetic and non-diabetic groups. Box plot data represent median, 25th, 75th percentiles, with whiskers representing ± 1.5 times the interquartile range. Data represent values for the hardware of the inoculated hindlimb of each group after normalization to the hardware of non-inoculated hindlimb. Dashed red line has a value of 1 and represents the non-inoculated hindlimb absorbance data. There was a significant increase in the amount of biofilm detected in the inoculated hindlimb of the diabetic rats (p = 0.0017*).