TABLE 3.

Pearson’s correlation of the four Bacteroides assays in 20 sewage-contaminated and 13 agricultural contaminated water samples

Assay	Pearson’s r (P value) for:
	BacV4V5-1	BacV6-21	HB	HF183/BacR287
BacV4V5-1	1.000
BacV6-21	0.995 (<2.2 × 10−16)	1.000
HB	0.842 (7.9 × 10−10)	0.817 (6.7 × 10−9)	1.000
HF183/BacR287	0.824 (3.8 × 10−9)	0.792 (3.9 × 10−8)	0.995 (<2.2 × 10−16)	1.000