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Published in final edited form as: Arch Environ Occup Health. 2015 Jun 11;71(3):157–162. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2015.1058234

Table 4.

Distribution of Phage (PFU) on Fomites

	Personal Fomites						Communal Fomites

	Min	25^th	50^th	75^th	Max	P	Min	25^th	50^th	75^th	Max	P
Baseline 1^a	ND^c	ND	20	100	28000	0.10	ND	ND	10	120	5800	<0.0001
Intervention 1^a	ND	ND	ND	ND	TNTC^d		ND	ND	ND	ND	60
Baseline 2^b	ND	ND	ND	160	15400	0.03	ND	ND	ND	50	1680	0.001
Intervention 2^e	ND	ND	ND	ND	580		ND	ND	ND	ND	210
Baseline 1+2	ND	ND	ND	125	28000	0.005	ND	ND	10	110	5800	<0.0001
Intervention 1+2	ND	ND	ND	ND	TNTC		ND	ND	ND	ND	210

^a

During baseline 1 and intervention 1 a hand was seeded with phage

^b

During baseline 2 and intervention 2 a door was seeded with phage

^c

None detected

^d

Too numerous to count