TABLE 2.
Similarity of E. coli strains isolated from adult ring-billed gulls from different regions of the Great Lakes based on the similarity of their HFERP DNA fingerprint patterns
| Locationa | No. of E. coli isolates |
P valueb
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DLH | SS | DC | LC | ||
| DLH | 91 | ||||
| SS | 57 | <0.001 | |||
| DC | 35 | <0.001 | 0.366 | ||
| LC | 31 | <0.001 | 0.331 | 0.910 | |
| IN | 19 | <0.001 | 0.622 | 0.924 | 0.997 |
a
DLH, Duluth-Superior harbor, Lake Superior; SS, south shore of Lake Superior, Wisconsin; DC, Door County, WI, Lake Michigan; LC, Lake County, IL, Lake Michigan; IN, Indiana, Lake Michigan.
b
P values for comparisons tested by MANOVA.