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Table 2 Microbial count % change one week after medicaments removal

From: Direct and residual antimicrobial effect of 2% chlorhexidine gel, double antibiotic paste and chitosan- chlorhexidine nanoparticles as intracanal medicaments against Enterococcus faecalis and Candida albicans in primary molars: an in-vitro study

Micro-organism

Interval

Microbial count reduction (%) (Mean ± SD)

f-value

p-value

CS-CHX NPs

CHX

DAP

CSNPs

C. albicans

(T3’-T3)

87.00 ± 12.04 A

17.70 ± 14.88BC

6.17 ± 4.30 C

25.00 ± 0.00B

68.09

< 0.001*

(T7’-T7)

93.50 ± 6.02 A

5.35 ± 3.66 C

2.96 ± 2.87 C

63.57 ± 2.72B

610.77

< 0.001*

t-value

1.12

1.64

1.13

31.69

  

p-value

0.324

0.177

0.321

< 0.001*

  

E. faecalis

(T3’-T3)

91.25 ± 0.88 A

10.26 ± 0.10BC

5.94 ± 5.95 C

25.53 ± 5.95B

69.12

< 0.001*

(T7’-T7)

91.90 ± 5.18 A

10.34 ± 8.93B

11.07 ± 2.78B

86.08 ± 4.08 A

387.37

< 0.001*

t-value

0.29

0.02

2.19

6.87

  

p-value

0.784

0.986

0.093

0.002*

  
  1. Means with different superscript letters within the same horizontal row are significantly different *significant (p < 0.05).