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. 2008 Jul 11;74(17):5490–5496. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00331-08

TABLE 5.

Correlations between the concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria and the presence/absence of potential pathogensa

Fecal indicator bacteria P value for correlation to the indicated pathogen
A. hydrophila lip gene C. coli ceuE gene C. jejuni mapA gene L. pneumophila mip gene Salmonella invA gene G. lamblia β-giardin gene
E. coli 0.250 0.611 0.466 0.969 0.306 0.406
Enterococci 0.020b 0.142 0.552 0.878 0.986 0.873
C. perfringens 0.759 0.752 0.909 0.469 0.107 0.316
a

Data are results of binary logistic regression analysis (P values) performed to identify correlations between the concentrations of fecal indicator bacteria and the presence/absence of potential pathogens in roof-harvested rainwater samples.

b

The correlation is significant.