. 2017 Aug 17;83(17):e01046-17. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01046-17

TABLE 1.

Microbiota found on conveyor belts in meat processing plants

Genus	No. of colonies isolated from indicated conveyor belt at:									Total no. of colonies
	Plant A						Plant B
	1	2	3	4	5	6^a	1	2	3
Pseudomonas	7^b	5	24^b			1^b				37
Acinetobacter	1	6						6^b		13
Microbacterium						10^b	1			11
Sphingomonas						1	10^b			11
Epilithonimonas						8^b				8
Micrococcus				4		1^b			1	6
Psychrobacter	4							2^b		6
Rhodococcus						1	4^b			5
Corynebacterium								2^b	2	4
Brevundimonas						1	2		1	4
Vagococcus	3									3
Erysipelothrix	2									2
Kocuria						1^b		1^b		2
Chryseobacterium							1			1
Exiguobacterium					1					1
Leucobacter							1			1
Lysinibacillus	1									1
Moraxella					1					1
Paenibacillus		1								1
Rhothia									1	1
Roseomonas						1				1
Variovorax							1			1
Total	18	12	24	4	2	25	20	11	5	121

L. monocytogenes was isolated from this conveyor belt on several other occasions (MF5377).

Sample with isolates used in biofilm experiments in this study.