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. 2019 Sep 17;8(3):154. doi: 10.3390/pathogens8030154

Table 8.

Roughness of twenty-four-hour-old biofilms of several Salmonella strains of food origin after exposure to different concentrations of benzalkonium chloride (BZK).

SEROTYPE Strains Exposed to:
Nonexposed BZK-1000 ppm BZK-5000 ppm BZK-10,000 ppm
Salmonella Agona 0.451 ± 0.019abab 0.246 ± 0.028aa 0.668 ± 0.065bccd 0.702 ± 0.170ca
Salmonella Anatum 0.586 ± 0.068babcd 0.439 ± 0.006abcd 0.395 ± 0.031aa 0.703 ± 0.033ca
Salmonella Enteritidis 0.682 ± 0.048bd 0.335 ± 0.058aabc 0.684 ± 0.026be 0.648 ± 0.192ba
Salmonella Hadar 0.644 ± 0.067bd 0.397 ± 0.008aabcd 0.676 ± 0.051be 0.668 ± 0.028ba
Salmonella Infantis 0.628 ± 0.031acd 0.649 ± 0.142ae 0.617 ± 0.006acd 0.696 ± 0.202aa
Salmonella Kentucky 0.442 ± 0.060aa 0.503 ± 0.044acde 0.419 ± 0.051aa 0.699 ± 0.067ba
Salmonella Thompson 0.567 ± 0.089babcd 0.391 ± 0.005aabcd 0.563 ± 0.047bbc 0.563 ± 0.003ba
Salmonella Typhimurium 0.474 ± 0.071aabc 0.407 ± 0.020aabcd 0.626 ± 0.020bcd 0.701 ± 0.016ba
Salmonella 1,4,(5),12:i- 0.609 ± 0.035cbcd 0.314 ± 0.075aab 0.464 ± 0.027bab 0.696 ± 0.019ca
Salmonella Virchow 0.452 ± 0.031aab 0.553 ± 0.060abde 0.639 ± 0.022bccd 0.726 ± 0.033ca

For interpretation, see Table 1.