Table 3.

Bacterial strains growth on reconstructed human epithelium (RHE).

scFOS (%)	S. epidermidis			C. acnes			S. aureus
	0 h	8 h	24 h	0 h	8 h	24 h	0 h	8 h	24 h
0	1.0	0.6	0.7	1.0	1.5	51.4	1.0	2.5	1.6
0.5	1.0	0.6	1.6	1.0	8.4	67.5	1.0	7.9	2.4
1	1.0	0.5	1.0	1.0	0.5	18.3	1.0	12.2	18.1

Spread plate colony count of S. epidermidis, C. acnes and S. aureus following RHE colonization and exposure to different concentrations of scFOS for 0, 8 and 24 h, expressed as fold-change compared to the initial bacterial load.