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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2018 Nov 22;84:77–87. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2018.11.035

Table 2.

Bacterial adhesion reduction (%) compared to smooth PU surfaces in plasma under static condition, and statistical analysis of the bacterial adhesion results using two-sample t-test of the mean (p-values)

Surface modification S. epidermidis
(%)
S. aureus
(%)
P. aeruginosa
(%)

Texturing only 56 (p <0.001) 64 (p <0.001) 58 (p <0.001)
NO release only 76 (p <0.001) 70 (p <0.001) 60 (p <0.001)
Texturing+NO release 84 (p <0.001) 78 (p <0.001) 87 p <0.01)