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Table 3 Frequency of strains according to their motility capacity and flagellar antigen type within biofilm producers and non-producers.

From: Biofilm formation as a novel phenotypic feature of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli(AIEC)

 

Biofilm formation category

 
 

Moderate-Strong

(N = 26)

Weak

(N = 39)

 

Motility/H type

N

(%)

N

(%)

P

H- (N = 18)

0

(0)

18

(46.2)

< 0.001a, 0.003b

H1 (N = 14)

14

(53.8)

0

(0)

< 0.001a, < 0.001c

Hx (N = 33)

12

(46.2)

21

(53.8)

< 0.001c, 0.003b

  1. Abbreviators: H-: nonmotile strains; H1: motile and H1 flagellar type; Hx: motile and any flagellar type except H1.asignificance between H- and H1; bsignificance between H- and Hx; csignificance between H1 and Hx.