. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pharm Res. 2014 May 30;31(12):3379–3389. doi: 10.1007/s11095-014-1427-y

Table III.

Microparticle sizes of each microparticle formulation.

	Size of 10 wt% antibiotic-loaded PLGA Microparticles (μm)	Size of 20 wt% antibiotic-loaded PLGA Microparticles (μm)
Blank	43.34 ± 41.93
Cefazolin	41.9 ± 38.6	47.6 ± 40.3
Ciprofloxacin	60.3 ± 49.7^a	36.5 ± 31.9
Clindamycin	48.6 ± 33.4	51.0 ± 40.8
Colistin	41.3 ± 33.3	40.9 ± 34.9
Doxycyline	41.7 ± 33.1	41.5 ± 35.3
Vancomycin	33.1± 28.7^b	36.9 ± 28.1

Superscript letters indicate significant difference between groups.

Data is presented as mean ± standard deviation, n=3 per group.