TABLE 2.

Measures of association between numbers of total (tlh) and pathogenic (tdh and trh) V. parahaemolyticus organisms and environmental parameters

Site and sample type	Gene detected/unit of measure	Environmental parameter	Regression coefficient (effect size)a	P value	Partial coefficient of determination (%)b
MS water	tlh/ml	Salinity	0.10 (0.079, 0.12)	<0.001	64
	tlh/ml	Turbidity	0.0433 (0.023, 0.064)	<0.001	26
MS oyster	tlh/g	Salinity	0.12 (0.082, 0.15)	<0.001	76
	tlh/g	Turbidity	0.0431 (−0.006, 0.092)	0.081	18
MS water	tdh/ml	Salinity
	tdh/ml	Turbidity	0.063 (0.023, 0.10)	0.003	4
MS oyster	tdh/g	Salinity	0.11 (0.003, 0.22)	0.044	8
	tdh/g	Turbidity	0.18 (0.03, 0.33)	0.023	10
MS water	trh/ml	Salinity	−0.076 (−0.13, −0.02)	0.009	4
	trh/ml	Turbidity	0.060 (0.017, 0.10)	0.008	4
MS oyster	trh/g	Salinity	0.26 (0.07, 0.45)	0.01	21
	trh/g	Turbidity	0.38 (0.10, 0.66)	0.01	23

^aMaximum likelihood estimates and parenthetical 95% confidence intervals of regression coefficients corresponding to environmental parameters identified to be significant (P < 0.05) or marginally significant (P < 0.10) by backward stepwise identification in GLMM analyses.

^bBased on Nagelkerke's pseudo-R² statistic.