Figure 3.

Dependence of BAC uptake and specific BAC uptake (first and second rows of panels respectively) with inoculum size and disinfectant dosage. (A) shows the dependence of BAC uptake with dose concentrations at two different inoculum concentrations for experiments in Figure 2. (B) depicts the dependence of BAC uptake with the inoculum concentration for a set of new experiments. (C) shows the isotherms of uptake for experiments in Figure 2. (D) The dependence of specific BAC uptake with dose concentrations at two different inoculum concentrations for experiments in Figure 2. (E) depicts the correlation between inoculum and specific BAC uptake for the new experiments at different inocula. Finally (F) shows the proposed correlation to explain specific BAC uptake at different inoculum and dose concentrations.