Antimicrobial Efficiency of Hypochlorous Acid and Its Effect on Some Properties of Alginate Impression Material

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of colony forming unit (CFU) counts/ml × 10⁶ for the different disinfectant solutions for Candida albicans, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

	Disinfectant	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Std. deviation
Candida albicans	Control	25	25	25	0.00000
	NaOCl	0.0	0.3	0.1	0.14142
	HOCl (5 min)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.00000
	HOCl (10 min)	0.1	0.5	0.2	0.17889
Staphylococcus aureus	Control	25	25	25	0.00000
	NaOCl	0.0	0.5	0.16	0.23022
	HOCl (5 min)	0.0	0.7	0.32	0.32711
	HOCl (10 min)	0.2	0.3	0.24	0.05477
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Control	25	25	25	0.00000
	NaOCl	0.0	1.4	0.72	0.49699
	HOCl (5 min)	0.8	1.2	1.0	0.14142
	HOCl (10 min)	0.3	1.4	0.82	0.49699