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. 2015 Sep 2;93(3):509–516. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0824

Table 3.

Domestic domain correlations of Bacteroidales associated fecal markers in household SDW and on HR-M and HR-C sorted from highest to lowest

Variable 1* Variable 2 No. of households Spearman correlation
ρ P value
Correlation between domestic domain pathways
 HR-M human HR-C human 129 0.540 < 0.001
 HR-M animal HR-C animal 129 0.511 < 0.001
 HR-M animal SDW animal 129 0.367 < 0.001
 HR-M total HR-C total 129 0.322 < 0.001
 HR-M total SDW total 129 0.271 0.002
 HR-C animal SDW animal 127 0.242 0.006
 HR-C human SDW human 127 0.199 0.025
 HR-M human SDW human 129 0.189 0.031
 HR-M fecal coliform HR-C fecal coliform 128 0.116 0.192
 HR-M fecal coliform SDW fecal coliform 123 0.077 0.396
 HR-C total SDW total 127 0.018 0.842
 HR-C fecal coliform SDW fecal coliform 121 −0.076 0.405
Correlation between FC and Bacteroidales markers by pathway
 SDW fecal coliform SDW total 122 0.379 < 0.001
 SDW fecal coliform SDW animal 122 0.378 < 0.001
 HR-M fecal coliform HR-M animal 131 0.257 0.003
 HR-M fecal coliform HR-M total 131 0.250 0.004
 HR-C fecal coliform HR-C human 128 0.152 0.087
 HR-C fecal coliform HR-C total 128 0.096 0.281
 HR-C fecal coliform HR-C animal 128 0.022 0.801
 SDW fecal coliform SDW human 122 0.000 0.999
 HR-M fecal coliform HR-M human 131 −0.024 0.787
Correlation between total and source-associated Bacteroidales by pathway
 HR-M total HR-M animal 131 0.692 < 0.001
 HR-C total HR-C animal 129 0.659 < 0.001
 SDW total SDW animal 129 0.560 < 0.001
 SDW human SDW animal 129 0.329 < 0.001
 HR-C total HR-C human 129 0.296 0.001
 SDW total SDW human 129 0.241 0.006
 HR-C human HR-C animal 129 0.187 0.034
 HR-M human HR-M animal 131 0.080 0.366
 HR-M total HR-M human 131 0.011 0.898

FC = fecal coliform; HR-C = hand rinse children; HR-M = hand rinse mother; SDW = stored drinking water.

*

Total, human, animal: representing total (BacUni), human-associated (BacHum), or nonhuman-associated (BacCow) Bacteroidales markers.