Inhibitory effects of long-chain fatty alcohols on the growth of S. aureus FDA209P. S. aureus FDA209P was inoculated into BHI medium that contained no long-chain fatty alcohols (○), or into broth that contained 40 μg mL-1 of 1-octanol (●), 1-nonanol (△), 1-decanol (□), 1-undecanol (▽), 1-dodecanol (▼), 1-tridecanol (◆), 1-tetradecanol (◐), 1-pentadecanol (◧), 1-hexadecanol (◇), 1-heptadecanol (▲) or 1-octadecanol (■), and then cell growth was monitored in terms of OD660.