Table 2.

The effectiveness of VHP decontamination for tested microorganisms inoculated on cotton fabric

Microorganisms	Number of microorganisms [CFU/100 cm2]		Reduction R [%]
	before VHP	after VHP
B. licheniformis	8.3 × 105 ± 4.0 × 105	2.0 × 103 ± 7.6 × 102*	99.76
P. psychrodurans	1.2 × 107 ± 9.8 × 106	2.3 × 103 ± 5.8 × 102*	99.98
L. fusiformis	1.9 × 103 ± 6.4 × 102	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
S. epidermidis	1.8 × 106 ± 2.2 × 106	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
M. luteus	7.8 × 105 ± 8.8 × 104	4.0 × 100 ± 5.0 × 100*	99.99
B. subtilis WDCM 00003	4.0 × 106 ± 5.4 × 106	4.4 × 101 ± 3.6 × 101*	99.99
A. niger	4.0 × 108 ± 2.4 × 108	1.9 × 105 ± 1.4 × 105*	99.95
R. nigricans	1.5 × 106 ± 5.8 × 105	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
P. chrysogenum	7.8 × 106 ± 6.1 × 106	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
A. flavus	2.5 × 107 ± 2.4 × 107	9.0 × 100 ± 1.1 × 101*	99.99
E. nigrum	3.4 × 104 ± 3.2 × 104	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
C. cladosporioides	1.7 × 104 ± 1.2 × 104	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
A. alternata	2.2 × 104 ± 8.6 × 103	0.0 × 100 ± 0.0 × 100*	100.00
A. niger WDCM 00053	9.7 × 107 ± 1.2 × 108	1.4 × 105 ± 1.1 × 105*	99.86

Mean ± standard deviation; *statistically significant difference between samples before and after VHP decontamination, ANOVA at a significance level of p < 0.05