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International Journal of Bioprinting Characterization of BITC antibacterial hydrogel

Figure 7. Minimum bactericidal concentration of benzyl isothiocyanate hydrogel against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC25923 and methicillin-resistant
S. aureus.

that cause post-burn infection . E. coli is the most common BITC (0% BITC concentration) and the whole plate was
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Gram-negative burn pathogen . The antibacterial activity full of E. coli MG1655 and S. aureus ATCC25923. When
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of the BITC hydrogel against S. aureus ATCC25923 and the BITC concentration of the BITC hydrogel was 0.4%,
E. coli MG1655 is shown in Figure 6A, while Table 3 shows 0.6%, and 0.8%, the inhibition regions formed on both
the size of the inhibition zone. Compared with the solid the solid agar plate containing LB and the solid agar plate
agar plate containing LB and the solid agar plate containing containing TSB, while the diameter of the inhibition zone
TSB, there was no inhibition zone on the agar plate without increased from 1.5 cm to 6 cm (Table 3). The larger the

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