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Chapter 5<br />

Table 5.3: The density <strong>of</strong> bi<strong>of</strong>ilm formed over 48 hours.<br />

Strain<br />

Number<br />

Organism<br />

48 hours- 22°C 48 hours -37°C<br />

N Rank Mean SD Rank Mean SD<br />

27853 P. aeruginosa 9 12 0.184 0.07 1 0.540 0.40<br />

S08-0601 S. Agona Outbreak 9 1 0.815 0.66 3 0.291 0.47<br />

S09-0494 S. Agona Outbreak 9 11* 0.204 0.07 4 0.227 0.10<br />

S09-0046 S. Agona variant 9 5 0.386 0.35 11 0.104 0.06<br />

S09-0371 S. Agona 9 3 0.450 0.37 13 0.091 0.04<br />

S09-0479 S. Agona 9 6 0.351 0.25 5 0.187 0.13<br />

SL483 S. Agona 9 4 0.405 0.19 8 0.149 0.08<br />

S09-0419 S. Typhimurium 9 9 0.245 0.28 9 0.144 0.09<br />

S08-0408 S. Typhimurium 9 10 0.224 0.11 10 0.114 0.08<br />

SL1344 S. Typhimurium 9 2 0.723 0.50 2 0.294 0.51<br />

LT2 S. Typhimurium 9 11* 0.204 0.11 6 0.183 0.08<br />

S09-0717 S. Enteritidis 9 7 0.285 0.19 7 0.159 0.12<br />

S09-0004 S. Enteritidis 9 8 0.260 0.29 12 0.103 0.06<br />

Table 5.3 displays the mean optical density <strong>of</strong> bi<strong>of</strong>ilm formed on the<br />

surface <strong>of</strong> a microtitre plate following incubation at room temperature<br />

(22°C) and 37°C for 48 hours. The optical density was measured at 590<br />

nanometres in wavelengths (OD 590 ). Strains include 1 Pseudomonas<br />

aeruginosa, 6 Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Agona, 4<br />

Salmonella Typhimurium and 2 Salmonella Enteritidis strains. Table 5.3 also<br />

displays the mean OD 590 and standard deviation <strong>of</strong> the mean. The most<br />

dense bi<strong>of</strong>ilm former (based on mean) is ranked as number 1 followed the<br />

next strain to form a dense bi<strong>of</strong>ilm et cetera. An asterisk (*) denotes a<br />

shared ranking position. The mean OD 590 and standard deviation are<br />

underlined for 3 strains due to large OD 590 measurements for some<br />

replicate observations for these strains. The full set <strong>of</strong> observations for all<br />

OD 590 measurements for all 13 strains is provided in Appendix 2- Table 2<br />

and Table 3.<br />

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