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. 2022 Dec 6;12:21104. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25436-3

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Biofilm formation of C. acnes strains. a Kinetic of bacterial adhesion was measured using the BioFilm Ring Test for C. acnes strains isolated from healthy subjects (HS) and the lesional skin of acne patients (LA) and (b) according to the phylotypes IA1, IB, II. C. acnes ATCC 1182 was used as a reference control strain. The mean and corresponding standard errors for three independent experiments of duplicate samples for each time point are shown. (c,d) The amount of biofilm biomass after 72 h was measured by the crystal violet assays (optical density (OD) at 595 nm). The mean and corresponding standard errors for three independent experiments of duplicate samples for each time point are shown. (e) Confocal microscopy image of biofilm formation of different C. acnes isolates and the C. acnes ATCC 1182 after 72 h of incubation in BHI at 37 °C. Significance was assessed by using the Kruskal Wallis static test. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001, ****, P < 0.0001.