Table 1.
Statistics of the fluorescent reagent based manual counts for the determination of the reference viability of the mixed cultures
| MR* | count 1 | count 2 | count 3 | count 4 | count 5 | ML**(%) | SD*** | |||||
| #live | #dead | #live | #dead | #live | #dead | #live | #dead | #live | #dead | |||
| 1:4 | 34 | 163 | 30 | 147 | 24 | 150 | 36 | 144 | 48 | 141 | 18.7 | 0.044 |
| 2:3 | 65 | 118 | 72 | 116 | 67 | 118 | 80 | 108 | 77 | 127 | 38.1 | 0.027 |
| 3:2 | 95 | 86 | 93 | 83 | 110 | 65 | 115 | 69 | 101 | 86 | 56.9 | 0.052 |
| 4:1 | 154 | 39 | 121 | 37 | 120 | 42 | 130 | 52 | 130 | 38 | 75.9 | 0.032 |
| 9:1 | 143 | 38 | 158 | 37 | 147 | 26 | 131 | 34 | 135 | 39 | 80.4 | 0.028 |
| 17:3 | 165 | 19 | 130 | 31 | 156 | 22 | 150 | 16 | 142 | 36 | 85.6 | 0.050 |
* MR: mixture ratio; ** ML: mean percentage of live cells; *** SD: standard deviation