Journal: Biofilm
Article Title: From adhesion to biofilms formation and resilience: Exploring the impact of silver nanoparticles-based biomaterials on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
doi: 10.1016/j.bioflm.2025.100267
Figure Lengend Snippet: Study of the adhesion and viability of P. aeruginosa PAO1-Tn 7-gfp on SiO 2 -samples and AgNPs-based biomaterials. Cultivable planktonic and adhered bacteria were quantified after 30 and 90 min of contact under static conditions. Results are expressed as means log CFU/cm 2 ± Standard Deviation (SD) from three independent experiments. In accordance with the applied methodology for counting the planktonic cells log CFU/cm 2 = log CFU/mL. Statistically significant differences are determined by two-way ANOVA with Tukey’ test for multiple comparisons (∗∗, p- value <0.01, ∗∗∗∗, p- value <0.0001), ns: not significant, nd: not detected. Epifluorescence microscopic images are presented in Supplementary Materials, .
Article Snippet: The observations were conducted using a Zeiss-Axiotech epifluorescence microscope with a 20X (Zeiss, EC Plan-Neofluar) objective, equipped with an HXP 120 C light source, a digital camera (Zeiss AxioCam ICm 1), coupled to the ZEN software.
Techniques: Bacteria, Standard Deviation