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Table 2 Adhesion (%) of growing bacterial cells to polystyrene coated with biosurfactant at different concentrations

From: Diverse effects of a biosurfactant from Rhodococcus ruber IEGM 231 on the adhesion of resting and growing bacteria to polystyrene

Bacterial strains

Biosurfactant concentration, mg/L

0

0.1

1

10

100

1000

A. simplex IEGM 667

76.2 ± 4.9

96.9 ± 5.2

73.8 ± 4.1

81.8 ± 6.1

88.8 ± 5.5

57.2 ± 4.1

B. subtilis ATCC 6613

29.7 ± 3.2

31.9 ± 1.2

16.8 ± 3.1

7.1 ± 0.8

21.2 ± 2.6

53.1 ± 3.8

B. linens IEGM 1830

6.0 ± 0.3

10.5 ± 0.9

9.7 ± 0.7

7.0 ± 0.2

7.3 ± 0.3

5.3 ± 0.5

C. glutamicum IEGM 1861

11.9 ± 0.8

11.4 ± 0.6

9.3 ± 0.5

7.5 ± 0.4

8.1 ± 0.4

10.4 ± 0.8

E. coli К-12

8.3 ± 0.5

5.1 ± 0.3

4.8 ± 0.2

4.2 ± 0.2

4.7 ± 0.2

4.6 ± 0.1

M. luteus IEGM 401

5.5 ± 0.3

4.6 ± 0.2

4.3 ± 0.2

3.7 ± 0.2

3.9 ± 0.2

4.5 ± 0.3

P. fluorescens NCIMB 9046

8.8 ± 1.3

6.2 ± 0.3

6.8 ± 0.4

6.2 ± 0.4

6.9 ± 0.4

7.2 ± 0.6