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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 26.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Food Microbiol. 2013 Sep 21;167(2):186–195. doi: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2013.09.008

Table 1.

Bacterial counts in colony forming units (CFU) and prevalence of S. infantarius subsp. infantarius (Sii) and S. gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus (Sgm) determined from unfermented Kenyan raw milk samples (n = 72) of camel, cow and goat origin in this and in a previous study.

Sample type Samples/isolates Agar media log10 CFU/mL (average ± SDa)
pH (average ± SDa) Prevalence Sii (and SBSEC members)
Reference
M17 SM MRS KFS Samples %
Isolates %
Sii Sgm Sii Sgm
Raw milk from Kenya
Camel raw milk
    Herd level 14/40 1.6 ± 2.0* 2.6 ± 1.2* n.d. n.d. 6.1 ± 0.2(2)* - - - - This study
    Herd level 17/59 2.7 ± 0.8C n.d. 2.2 ± 1.5B 0.7 ± 1.1* 6.5 ± 0.1(17)A - - - - Jans et al. (2012a)
    Intermediate level   5/26 4.5 ± 1.1BC n.d. 4.7 ± 1.1A 2.1 ± 1.9A 6.4 ± 0.2(5)A - - - - Jans et al. (2012a)
    Market level 11/55 5.6 ± 1.1A 3.0 ± 2.3A n.d. n.d. 6.4 ± 0.1(3)AB - - - - This study
    Market level   4/50 6.8 ± 0.5A n.d. 6.6 ± 0.8A 3.7 ± 1.0A 6.2 ± 0.0(4)BC - - - - Jans et al. (2012a)
    Milk 24 h 14/69 6.5 ± 1.2* 6.3 ± 1.4* n.d. n.d. 6.5 ± 0.1(12)* - - - - This study
Cow raw milk
    Herd level   6/56 3.8 ± 1.2BC 3.9 ± 1.1A n.d. n.d. n.d. - - - - This study
    Market level   8/50 3.5 ± 1.8BC 2.5 ± 1.6* n.d. n.d. 6.5 ± 0.2(3)A - - - - This study
Goat raw milk
    Herd level   6/36 3.2 ± 0.8BC 2.8 ± 1.0A n.d. n.d. 6.2 ± 0.2(6)C - - - - This study
    Market level   9/73 3.6 ± 1.4* 3.1 ± 1.7A n.d. n.d. 6.1 ± 0.3(2)* 11.1 - 2.7 - This study
    Milk 24 h   4/10 4.1 ± 0.7B 2.9 ± 2.0* n.d. n.d. 6.6(1)* - - - - This study

Sii: S. infantarius subsp. infantarius; Sgm: S. gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus; a) SD: standard deviation; superscript figure in brackets = number of pH measurements; n.d.: not determined; “–” below detection limit.Statistics comment:*) samples not normally distributed according to Shapiro–Wilk test (alpha = 0.05) were excluded from t-test and analyzed in a pair-wise Kruskal–Wallis test (alpha = 0.05). Values per column M17, SM, MRS, KFS and pH not connected by the same capital letter (A, B, C) are significantly different (t test, alpha = 0.05).