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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Water Health. 2010 Feb 3;8(3):466–478. doi: 10.2166/wh.2010.116

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Survival of sorbitol-fermenting Bifidobacteria in comparison to coliform bacteria (E. coli, FC, TC) in microcosms using water from stream- and groundwater habitats incubated at room temperature for 120 h. Values plotted are the mean of three samples per faecal indicator and site. SFB were not detected in samples from site BL3 and BH2 throughout the sampling period and during the survival determination. For BL3, BH2, OP2, US2 and DS2 abbreviations see Figure 1; ◆, Total coliform (TC) (BH2, OP2, DS2 sites); ■, Fecal coliform (FC) (BH2, OP2, DS2 sites); ▲, E. coli (BH2, OP2, DS2 sites); ●, Sorbitol-fermenting Bifidobacteria (SFB) (OP2, DS2 sites); ◇, TC (BL3, US2 sites); □, FC (BL3, US2 sites); △, E. coli (BL3, US2 sites) and ○, SFB (US2 sites).