Figure 1.

Bactericidal activity of monocaprin against a variety of different bacteria. Bacteria (~10³ colony-forming units (CFU) in triplicate wells) were treated with various doses of monocaprin (0.125–25 mM), and variability was determined using viable counting on selective agar at various time points (2–360 min). The symbols represent the mean bactericidal activity, calculated as the percentage of (surviving bacteria/the number of untreated control bacteria) × 100 from n = 2–3 independent experiments. The error bars are the standard errors of the means.