A Comparison of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Incorporated with Manuka Honey of Varying UMF

Figure 9

Bacterial adhesion of S. aureus to both CG and ES scaffolds as effected by the incorporation of 5 and 20 UMF MH. Note that the sterile disc control (left) is denoted by vertical bars and the vancomycin disc control (right) is denoted by horizontal bars. There was no statistical difference within each scaffold type upon the addition of either 5 or 20 UMF. Both the sterile disc and vancomycin disc control had significantly more adhesion than 5 and 20 UMF ES. Also, the sterile disc was significantly larger than 20 CG ().