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. 2020 Dec 15;8(12):616. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines8120616

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Composites’ antibacterial properties towards Staphylococcus aureus (A, SA) and Staphylococcus epidermidis (B, SE). Only the composite b (BG-chitosan-GPTMS wt20%) was successful in counteracting SA biofilm and significantly reducing SE after 3 days in comparison with bulk 100% BG in water paste controls (p < 0.05, indicated by #) due to chitosan properties as schematized in (C). On the opposite, samples a-c-e reported a higher contamination in comparison to the control (p < 0.05, indicated by the *) with SA infection. Bars represent means and standard deviations. a: BG-Cn-GPTMS10, b: BG-Cn-GPTMS20, c: BG-Gel-GPTMS10, d: BG-Gel-GPTMS20, e: BG-Cn-Gel-GPTMS10, f: BG-Cn-Gel-GPTMS20. Experiments were performed using six replicates for each specimen.