Table 1 Classification of bacterial strains based on their biofilm formation ability.

From: Essential oils against bacterial isolates from cystic fibrosis patients by means of antimicrobial and unsupervised machine learning approaches

Bacterial strains

Biofilm producer

Bacterial strains

Biofilm producer

6538P*

STRONG

PAO1*

STRONG

25923*

STRONG

PA14*

STRONG

1S

WEAK

21P

STRONG

2S

MODERATE

22P

NP

3S

WEAK

23P

MODERATE

4S

WEAK

24P

NP

5S

WEAK

25P

WEAK

6S

WEAK

26P

NP

7S

MODERATE

27P

NP

8S

WEAK

28P

NP

9S

WEAK

29P

NP

10S

MODERATE

30P

WEAK

11S

WEAK

31P

MODERATE

12S

WEAK

32P

WEAK

13S

WEAK

33P

NP

14S

WEAK

34P

WEAK

15S

MODERATE

35P

WEAK

16S

WEAK

36P

WEAK

17S

MODERATE

37P

STRONG

18S

WEAK

38P

MODERATE

19S

WEAK

39P

WEAK

20S

MODERATE

40P

WEAK

  1. For S. aureus, results were analysed according to Cafiso et al.14; for P. aeruginosa classification was based on Perez et al.15.
  2. NP: non biofilm producer.
  3. *Reference strains.