Table 3.
Percentage of VBNC cells among viable cells in the two strains of L. monocytogenes (mean of 6 values) at 8 and at 20°C in manure and lagoon effluent microcosms at T0 and T63 days.
| Temperature (°C) | Matrix | T0 |
T63 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SD) | Mean | (SD) | ||
| 8 | Manure-1 | 94.5a | (1.9) | 95.0a | (2.1) |
| 8 | Manure-2 | 81.5b | (5.9) | 85.0b | (6.3) |
| 20 | Manure-1 | 94.8a | (2.2) | 98.8a | (0.9) |
| 20 | Manure-2 | 84.8ab | (5.9) | 99.8a | (0.2) |
| 8 | Lagoon-1 | 67.8c | (17.2) | 83.1b | (2.6) |
| 8 | Lagoon-2 | 76.1bc | (5.4) | 88.7b | (8.3) |
| 20 | Lagoon-1 | 79.2bc | (4.6) | 97.3a | (3.0) |
| 20 | Lagoon-2 | 78.1bc | (5.0) | 99.2a | (0.7) |
Values in the same column followed by different letters differ significantly (Newman–Keuls. p < 0.05).