Table 3.

The relation between the different diploid sequence types (DST) and biofilm formation ability, XTT reduction assay, and activities of phospholipase, proteinase, and hemolysin and cell surface hydrophobicity assay (Mean ± Standard Deviation).

	DST2	DST50	DST62	DST69	DST124	DST142	DST144
N*	5	7	1	13	4	10	8
Biofilm formation ability	21.92 ± 9.69	37.26 ± 14.90	85.65	37.95 ± 23.95	60.84 ± 28.79	53.43 ± 25.42	42.89 ± 29.19
XTT reduction assay	61.71 ± 24.84	37.49 ± 18.77	18.05	43.71 ± 25.05	28.92 ± 18.28	30.88 ± 16.52	43.65 ± 25.90
Phospholipase activity	0.90 ± 0.05	0.86 ± 0.11	0.75	0.91 ± 0.09	0.85 ± 0.07	0.87 ± 0.11	0.90 ± 0.13
Proteinase activity	0.92 ± 0.06	0.86 ± 0.07	0.77	0.92 ± 0.07	0.86 ± 0.04	0.87 ± 0.08	0.89 ± 0.05
Haemolysin activity	0.82 ± 0.10	0.78 ± 0.07	0.74	0.82 ± 0.10	0.73 ± 0.04	0.84 ± 0.10	0.83 ± 0.09
Cell surface hydrophobicity assay	6.74 ± 2.89	8.79 ± 3.80	6.14	11.05 ± 5.36	7.91 ± 3.80	9.51 ± 5.08	9.26 ± 4.17

^*No significant effect was reported (p > 0.05).