Application of Biomaterials and Inkjet Printing to Develop Bacterial Culture System

Table 2

Survival rate of E. coli on PVA and CA hydrogel media after 24 h.

	PVA hydrogel	CA hydrogel
Number of areas measured	80	80
Mean number of colonies per area	6.78	5.73
95% confidence intervals of number of colonies per area	0.27	0.22
Survival rate (%)	67.1	90.4
Contamination rate (%)	26.3	7. 7