TABLE 2.
Sample period, number of water samples collected, and number of E. coli isolates genotyped using BOX-PCR and ERIC-PCR for each site and each year
| Site | Dates of sample collection | No. of samples (no. of isolates) fingerprinted |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total | ||
| MST-1 | 29 Mar. 2004 to 13 Aug. 2007 | 19 (1,477) | 18 (1,712) | 29 (998) | 6 (96) | 69 (4,283) |
| MST-5 | 25 Apr. 2004 to 13 Aug. 2007 | 22 (1,671) | 27 (3,489) | 23 (640) | 9 (180) | 81 (5,980) |
| MST-6 | 25 Apr. 2004 to 13 Aug. 2007 | 20 (1,552) | 26 (3,704) | 21 (652) | 9 (180) | 76 (5,458) |
| MST-9 | 25 Apr. 2005 to 13 Aug. 2007 | —a | 22 (3,326) | 21 (407) | 10 (200) | 53 (3,933) |
| MST-15 | 30 Aug. 2005 to 30 July 2007 | — | 9 (1,205) | 18 (360) | 5 (88) | 32 (1,653) |
a
—, the site was not sampled in 2004.