TABLE 2.
Prevalence of S. marcescens in A. palmata by disease status and sample type during the study period
| Sample type |
S. marcescens detection [no. of qPCR-positive samples/total(%)] |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
Total | ||||||
| Spring | Summer | Winter | Spring | Summer | Winter | Spring | Summer | ||
| Mucus from: | |||||||||
| Healthy tissue | 0/30 | 0/23 | 6/29 | 0/14 | 4/28 | 3/34 | 0/15 | 5/28 | 18/201 (9.0) |
| Abnormal tissue | 1/4 | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/2 | 0/3 | 1/13 (7.7) |
| WPD lesion | 0/4 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 5/13 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 2/9 | 7/26 (26.9) |
| Overlying water | 0/12 | 0/17 | 1/19 | 0/7 | 4/23 | 0/19 | 0/10 | 1/15 | 6/122 (4.9) |