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Survival of bacterial strains inoculated at 107 cells/disk on paper disks after 24 h of drying at 35°C. Each circle represents the number of each strain that survived. The bottom and top edges of the superimposed box plots are the 25th and 75th distribution percentiles, respectively; the central horizontal line is the median, and the central vertical lines show the range of the data. N-T, nontyphoid; N-P, nonpathogenic.
