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Following preliminary experiments to verify the utility of the CBR system for growing biofilms of several clinically relevant organisms, a standard operating procedure for growing a <jats:italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/jats:italic> biofilm was created. This paper presents the results of a rigorous, intra-laboratory, statistical evaluation of the repeatability and ruggedness of that procedure as well as the results of the experiments with clinically relevant organisms. For the statistical evaluations, the outcome of interest was the density (c.f.u.\u2005cm<jats:sup>\u22122<\/jats:sup>) of viable <jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic>. Replicate experiments were conducted to assess the repeatability of the log density outcome. The mean <jats:italic>P. aeruginosa<\/jats:italic> log<jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub> density was 7\u00b71, independent of the coupon position within the reactor. 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