Table 3.

Statistic estimation by Spearman’s correlation between numbers of studied microorganisms determined by cultured method on CCA medium and fluorescence techniques (DAPI and FISH) in sewage, water, and air samples collected from different sites during the whole time of study

	Total number of Enterobacteriaceae	Number of E. coli
Number of E. coli	0.875*
DAPI	0.850*	0.715*
EUB 338	0.860*	0.734*
GAM 42	0.817*	0.705*
ENT 183	0.708*	0.602*
ECO	0.490*	0.399*
KPN	0.401*	0.384*

*p < 0.05 (statistically significant correlation)