TABLE 2.
Selective detection of starved E. coli O157:H7 spiked into pond water by microfluidic-based system for counting and fluorescence microscopy
| Methoda | No. of E. coli O157:H7 cells/mlb in sample |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Pond water 1 | Pond water 2 | Pond water 3 | |
| Microfluidics | 1.0 (± 0.11) × 104 | 1.4 (± 0.41) × 104 | 1.2 (± 0.42) × 104 |
| EFM | 1.1 (± 0.32) × 104 | 1.5 (± 0.23) × 104 | 1.3 (± 0.31) × 104 |
a
Microfluidics, microfluidic-based system for counting; EFM, epifluorescence microscopy.
b
Numbers in parentheses indicate standard deviations (n = 6).