TABLE 3.
Bacteria and Bacteroidales marker results from water samples taken from the catchment of the Daoulas river estuary
| Site | Sampling date (mo/day/yr) | No. of E. coli [log(MPN/100 ml)] | Result (log10 copies/100 ml) for indicated probea
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Bacteria; BACT2 | All Bacteroidales; AllBac | Pig-specific Bacteroidales
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Human-specific Bacteroidales HF183 | Ruminant-specific Bacteroidales; BacR | ||||
| Pig-1-Bac | Pig-2-Bac | |||||||
| 1 | 12/06/2006 | 2.5 | 7 | 5.1 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 4.6 |
| 01/14/2008 | 4.3 | 7.6 | 6.7 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 6.0 | |
| 2 | 01/17/2006 | 3.3 | 7.9 | 6.9 | <3.5 | 4.1 | <3.5 | 4.8 |
| 3 | 01/17/2006 | 3.9 | 7.5 | 6.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 3.6 | <3.5 |
| 03/28/2006 | 3.9 | 7.5 | 5.4 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | |
| 4 | 01/17/2006 | 3.1 | 7.9 | 6.9 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 3.7 | <3.5 |
| 5 | 01/17/2006 | 4.0 | 8.2 | 7.3 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 4.4 | 5.7 |
| 03/28/2006 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 6.1 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 3.6 | 5.7 | |
| 12/06/2006 | 3.0 | 8.5 | 6.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 3.8 | 5.9 | |
| 6 | 01/17/2006 | 3.5 | 8.4 | 7.8 | <3.5; D | <3.5 | 3.9 | 6.0 |
| 01/14/2008 | 3.3 | 7.6 | 5.9 | <3.5; D | <3.5; D | 3.6 | <3.5 | |
| 01/17/2008 | 3.1 | 6.5 | 5.6 | <3.5; D | <3.5 | 3.7 | 5.7 | |
| 7 | 01/17/2006 | 3.5 | 9.1 | 7.7 | <3.5 | <3.5; D | 3.6 | 5.9 |
| 8 | 01/14/2008 | 3.9 | 7.7 | 6.4 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 5.6 |
| 01/17/2008 | 3.1 | 7.7 | 6.4 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5; D | 5.3 | |
| 9 | 01/14/2008 | 3.0 | 7.5 | 6.2 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 5.5 |
| 01/17/2008 | 2.9 | 6.4 | 6.2 | <3.5 | <3.5 | 4.3 | 5.3 | |
| 10 | 01/17/2008 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 4.7 | 4 | 4 | 0.0 | 4.1 |
| 11 | 01/14/2008 | 4.3 | 7.8 | 6.9 | <3.5 | 3.6 | 5.1 | <3.5 |
| 01/17/2008 | 3.9 | 8.1 | 6.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 5.1 | <3.5 | |
| 12 | 01/17/2008 | 3.0 | 7.2 | 4.6 | <3.5 | <3.5 | <3.5; D | 4.5 |
| 13 | 01/14/2008 | 3.0 | 7.9 | 6.2 | <3.5 | <3.5; D | 4 | 4.8 |
| 01/17/2008 | 3.3 | 6.6 | 5.1 | <3.5 | <3.5; D | 3.9 | 4.8 | |
| 14 | 01/17/2008 | 3.5 | 6.5 | 4.9 | <3.5; D | 3.6 | <3.5 | <3.5 |
a
The quantification limit of Bacteroidales markers is 3.5 log10 copies/100 ml of water sample. D, detected; i.e., positive results were obtained in two repeated experiments.