Figure 5
From: Zinc chloride is effective as an antibiotic in biofilm prevention following septoplasty
Biofilm growth of clinical bacteria on ZnCl2-coated splints and on non-ZnCl2-coated splints, captured by SEM. Staphylococcus aureus (a–d), Enterobacter aerogenes (e–h) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (i–l) were grown for 48 h on ZnCl2-coated splints (b,d,f,h,j,l) and on positive growth control non-ZnCl2-coated splints (a,c,e,g,i,k). Images were taken with an accelerating voltage of 2 kV at magnifications of 1000 (a,b,e,f,i,j) and 10,000 (c,d,g,h,k,l).
