Table 4.

Time zero quantification by wet weight, viable count, and qPCR^a

Strain	Wet wt		Viable count			qPCR
	(Wet wt0) (bacteria/ml)	(Wet wt0/wet wti)	(VC0) (CFU/ml)	(VC0/wet wti)	(VC0/wet wt0) (GE/ml)	(qPCR0)	(qPCR0/wet wti)	(qPCR0/wet wt0)
316F	1.92 × 107	112.87	1.99 × 105	1.17	0.01036	7.97 × 104	0.47	0.00415
2E	3.33 × 107	195.96	1.90 × 104	0.11	0.00057	1.13 × 104	0.07	0.00034
K10	2.49 × 107	149.69	8.93 × 104	0.53	0.00358	1.91 × 104	0.11	0.00077
81	2.69 × 107	158.09	8.60 × 104	0.51	0.00320	3.92 × 104	0.23	0.00146
445	1.74 × 107	102.57	5.43 × 104	0.32	0.00311	3.19 × 104	0.19	0.00183
764	2.43 × 107	142.65	5.33 × 104	0.31	0.00220	4.21 × 104	0.25	0.00174
22G	1.78 × 107	104.78	3.78 × 104	0.22	0.00212	7.58 × 104	0.45	0.00425
OC 49	1.12 × 107	65.81	ND	ND	ND	2.88 × 104	0.17	0.00258

^aWet wt₀, wet weight value at time zero; wet wt_i, wet weight initial inoculum value; VC₀, viable count value at time zero; qPCR₀, qPCR value at time zero; ND, not determined. Turbidometry could not be compared because all the values were 0 or below. Wet wt_i = 1.7 × 10⁵ bacteria/ml.