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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Lett Appl Microbiol. 2007 Apr;44(4):351–356. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.02094.x

TABLE 2.

Specificity of the BacH q PCR assay tested on human and animal faecal samples and cesspits and waste water samples

Source Sample type * Number of
samples ** 		BacH
positive/negative
Cesspits and wastewater *** Wastewater 20 20/0
Human**** single 21 20/1
Cattle pooled 6 (60) 0/6
Deer pooled 4 (40) 0/4
Chamois pooled 4 (40) 0/4
Roe deer pooled 1 (10) 0/1
Sheep pooled 3 (30) 0/3
Goat pooled 3 (30) 0/3
Horse pooled 3 (30) 0/3
Fox single 2 0/2
Dog single 3 0/3
Cat single 3 1/2
Pig pooled 2 (20) 0/2
Chicken pooled 1 (10) 0/1
Turkey pooled 1 (10) 0/1
Swan single 1 0/1
Duck pooled 1 (10) 0/1
Black grouse single 3 0/3
*

single, single faecal sample; pooled, sample pooled from 10 single faecal samples of the respective source or waste water sample;

**

original number of samples before pooling in brackets;

***

cesspits from mountain huts in the study area with 10 to 100 inhabitants, municipal waste water from settlements with 300 to 2 million inhabitants from all over Eastern Austria;

****

persons from Eastern Austria.