TABLE 4.
Estimated decay coefficients for each of the parameters during the depuration of oysters
| Batch | Timea (day) | Estimated decay coefficient (CI0.95) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoV GII genome | FRNAPH-II genome | Infectious FRNAPH | ||
| 1 | ≤1 | 0.55 | 0.32 | 0.27 |
| >1 | 0.92 (0.89, 0.95) | 0.94 (0.91, 0.97) | 0.94 (0.90, 0.97) | |
| 2 | ≤1 | 0.52 | 0.28 | 0.75 |
| >1 | 0.91 (0.89, 0.94) | 0.98 (0.95, 1.01) | 0.86 (0.83, 0.89) | |
| 3 | ≤1 | 0.52 | 0.23 | 0.99 |
| >1 | 0.93 (0.89, 0.96) | 1.04 (1.03, 1.08) | 0.93 (0.90, 0.96) | |
| All | ≤1 | 0.53 | 0.27 | 0.59 |
| >1 | 0.90 (0.88, 0.92) | 0.99 (0.97, 1.01) | 0.90 (0.89, 0.92) | |
a
For times of ≤1 day, estimation of the decay coefficients was computed from a limited number of observations (i.e., n ≤ 6), hence the absence of CI0.95.