Table 5.

Membrane fluidity (anisotropy values ¹) of the coagulase-negative staphylococcal species grown in tryptic soy broth (TSB), Mueller–Hinton broth (MHB) and serum.

Cluster Group	Staphylococci	TSB	MHB	Serum
	S. aureus	0.315 ± 0.025	0.318 ± 0.035	0.212 ± 0.017 ***
Auricularis	S. auricularis	0.196 ± 0.008	0.166 ± 0.018 **	0.114 ± 0.003 ***
Epidermidis	S. capitis	0.186 ± 0.015	0.152 ± 0.015 **	0.110 ± 0.002 ***
	S. epidermidis	0.180 ± 0.008	0.145 ± 0.013 **	0.096 ± 0.033 ***
Haemolyticus	S. haemolyticus	0.228 ± 0.019	0.188 ± 0.029 **	0.169 ± 0.038 ***
	S. hominis	0.245 ± 0.029	0.183 ± 0.028 **	0.146 ± 0.027 ***
Saprophyticus	S. saprophyticus	0.156 ± 0.013	0.134 ± 0.006 *	0.118 ± 0.008 ***

¹ Statistical significance between the anisotropy values of the TSB- and MHB-grown CONS, and the TSB- and serum-grown CONS species was calculated by two-tailed Student t-test (α = 0.05). * p ≤ 0.05; ** p ≤ 0.01; *** p ≤ 0.001.