Table 2.

Recovery of Bacillus anthracis Sterne 34F2 from non-sterile soil microcosms using tryptic soy agar (TSA) or polumixin B, lysozyme, EDTA and thallous acid (PLET) agar as the culture media (CFU g^-1 soil).

Inoculum (spores g-1)	TSA						PLET
	Total			Spore			Total			Spore
	Mean	SD	% Rec	Mean	SD	% Rec	Mean	SD	% Rec	Mean	SD	% Rec
101	2.59 × 101	3.64 × 101	259.26	4.00 × 102	6.08 × 102	4000.00	0	0	0.00	6.00 × 102	8.74 × 102	6000.00
102	1.85 × 101	2.94 × 101	18.52	1.11 × 101	2.36 × 101	11.11	1.11 × 101	1.67 × 101	11.11	1.11 × 101	2.36 × 101	11.11
103	2.56 × 102	4.18 × 102	25.56	2.59 × 101	5.72 × 101	2.59	1.74 × 102	6.83 × 101	17.41	2.93 × 102	1.54 × 102	29.26
104	4.48 × 103	4.32 × 103	44.81	4.44 × 103	1.44 × 103	44.44	2.28 × 103	1.77 × 103	22.78	4.15 × 103	1.65 × 103	41.48
105	6.56 × 104	1.70 × 104	65.56	5.81 × 104	1.63 × 104	58.15	3.15 × 104	1.30 × 104	31.48	3.11 × 104	1.43 × 104	31.11
106	6.26 × 105	7.41 × 104	62.59	6.22 × 105	1.83 × 105	62.22	3.26 × 105	1.71 × 105	32.59	3.78 × 105	9.57 × 104	37.78

The results are presented as log₁₀ values. Error is represented as standard deviation (arithmetic mean total viable count and spore count ± SD; n = 3). % Rec, recovery percentage.