Table 1. Lactic acid antimicrobial activity against fungal species by the disc diffusion method.
| Lactic acid concentration (mg/mL) | Diameter of inhibition zone (mm) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount (μL) | Penicilliumaurantiogriseum | Aspergillus versicolor | Aspergillus parasiticus | Aspergillus niger | |
| 102 | 15 | - | - | - | - |
| 20 | - | - | - | - | |
| 25 | - | - | - | - | |
| 209 | 15 | - | - | - | - |
| 20 | - | - | - | - | |
| 25 | 8.0 ± 1.15* | 10.0 ± 0.00 | - | - | |
| 321 | 15 | - | 7.6 ± 0.57 | - | - |
| 20 | 7.0 ± 0.57 | 11.0 ± 1.00 | - | - | |
| 25 | 10.0 ± 0.00 | 12.6 ± 0.57 | - | - | |
| 975 | 1.5 | - | 17.0 ± 0.77 | - | - |
| 2.5 | - | 19.0 ± 0.00 | - | - | |
| 5 | - | 21.0 ± 0.56 | - | - | |
| 10 | 11.0 ± 0.00 | 24.0 ± 0.35 | - | - | |
*Values represent means ± standard deviation calculated from three parallel tests. A hyphen (-) indicates that there was no inhibition zone.