. 2024 Mar 30;12(4):711. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms12040711

Table 1.

Microbiological analysis in honeys and pollen from Tetragonisca fiebrigi and Scaptotrigona jujuyensis. The results are expressed as CFU/g of the sample. Analysis of comparison of means according to Tukey’s test. Different letters indicate significant differences between the values of the same year and different species of bees (p < 0.05).

Assay	Bee	Honey		Pollen
Assay	Bee	December 2016	February 2017	December 2016	February 2017
Total Mesophilic Microorganisms	T. fiebrigi	6.2 × 10¹ ± 3.5 ^(A)	3.0 × 10³ ± 2.6 × 10^{2 (A)}	4.5 × 10¹ ± 3.7 ^(A)	4.4 × 10² ± 1.5 × 10^{1 (A)}
Total Mesophilic Microorganisms	S. jujuyensis	6.4 × 10¹ ± 1.4 × 10^{1 (A)}	3.0 × 10¹ ± 0.7 ^(B)	3.2 × 10¹ ± 5.4 ^(B)	3.5 × 10¹ ± 2.0 ^(B)
Fungi and Yeasts	T. fiebrigi	3.8 × 10¹ ± 1.2 ^(B)	4.0 × 10³ ± 3.0 × 10^{2 (A)}	2.2 × 10¹ ± 0.8 ^(A)	4.6 × 10¹ ± 3.7 ^(A)
Fungi and Yeasts	S. jujuyensis	8.9 × 10² ± 9.7 ^(A)	2.0 × 10¹ ± 0.6 ^(B)	1.8 × 10¹ ± 6.4 ^(A)	2.4 × 10¹ ± 3.2 ^(A)