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Table 3 Counts by culture and qPCR (mean and standard deviation) of total cells present in 4-day old oral multispecies biofilms

From: Method to quantify live and dead cells in multi-species oral biofilm by real-time PCR with propidium monoazide

	Culture		qPCR
Bacterial species	Log CFU (mean)	Standard deviation	Log cells (mean)	Standard deviation
S. oralis	6.37	0.18	7.40	0.24
S. gordonii	6.19	0.23	6.66	0.36
V. parvula	6.75	0.33	7.40	0.20
F. nucleatum	5.95	0.26	6.64	0.19
P. intermedia	6.83	0.20	6.92	0.19
Total mean	6.42	0.24	7.00	0.23

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