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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2019 Sep 10;11(38):34652–34662. doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b10610

Table 3-.

Comparative analysis of bacterial CFU/cm2 adhering to CarboSil, C-Se, C-SNAP and SNAP-Se-1 polymer composites.

Bacterial strain CarboSil C-Se C-SNAP SNAP-Se-1
S. aureus Average CFU 9 × 106 2.43× 106 7.5× 104 3.17× 104
Reduction efficiency (%) - 73.01 ± 21.3 99.16 ± 0.27 99.65 ± 0.28
p-value vs. CarboSil control - 0.008 0.003 0.003
E. coli Average CFU 6.6 × 107 2.5× 107 1.33× 107 5.5× 105
Reduction efficiency (%) - 62.50 ± 15 80.00 ± 11.4 99.18 ± 0.13
p-value vs. CarboSil control - 0.03 0.01 0.005