TABLE 4.

Survival of early-stationary-phase cells of strain NZP561 and otsA treY mutant strain HM5 after 2.5 h of air drying and subsequent storage at 28°C^a

Sample	% Survival of cells dried in:
	Water		1 M trehalose		1 M lactose
	NZP561	HM5	NZP561	HM5	NZP561	HM5
Initial	100	100	100	100	100	100
After drying	70.2	62.9	57.6	53.3	22.8	24.1
After storage for:
1 day	38.7	<0.001	65.6	9.5	<0.001	<0.001
2 days	8.5	<0.001	17.3	1.0	<0.001	<0.001
5 days	0	0	0.04	<0.001	0	0
7 days	0	0	0	0	0	0

^aResults from a single representative experiment are shown.