Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2017 Aug 17;7:8528. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09105-4

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2017

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Fabric and hybrid analysis. (A) Fabric architectures (1st and 5th columns) were first examined without biofilms and unfixed using scanning electron microscope (SEM, thick scale bars = 300 µm), and analyzed by FiberMetric (2nd and 6th columns showing fiber diameter distribution. Asterisks denote fabrics of various types which improved biofilm growth: *synthetic fabric made of polyester and cotton with large-sized threads and dense weave, **natural fabric made of cotton with small-sized threads and plain weave, ***synthetic fabric made of polyester with large fibres and loose weave. Fabric-biofilm hybrids were fixed after 3 days in culture and visualized in SEM (3rd and 7th columns, thin scale bars = 100 µm). Biofilm viability was scored each day on a score of 0–3 (0 = no growth and clear medium, 3 = full growth and cloudy medium, 4th and 8th columns). Control biofilm without fabric was scored 0–1–2–3. Results representative of 3 independent repeats. (B) Image analysis showing simulated roughness of biofilm in each of the three representative fabrics (*^,**^, ***, from left to right), demonstrating the correlation between weaving density and biofilm structure (x and y axes, location pixels; z axis, pixel intensity on a scale of 0–255).