Table 1 |.
Water quality descriptive statistics for home and source samples (home, n = 59; source, n = 27)
| Source samples (log number of gene copies/100 ml) |
Home samples (log number of gene copies/100 ml) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meana | Median | Range | Meana | Median | Range | |
| Campylobacter spp. | 0.98 | 0.01 | 0–4.4 | 0.99 | 1.02 | 0–1.02 |
| Salmonella spp. | 1.26 | 1.26 | 0–1.3 | 2.92 | 2.50 | 0–3.46 |
| S. aureus | 3.47 | 3.47 | 0–3.7 | 4.78 | 3.96 | 0–5.49 |
| stx1 | n.d.b | n.d. | n.d. | 4.12 | 4.06 | 0–4.67 |
| stx2 | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | 3.55 | 1.30 | 0–4.15 |
| HF183 | 8.0 | 8.00 | 0–8.3 | 6.26 | 5.97 | 0–6.73 |
| Rum2Bac | 4.66 | 4.62 | 0–5.1 | 5.46 | 4.87 | 0–6.36 |
| GFD | 4.37 | 4.37 | 0–4.4 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0–0.70 |
| tetQ | 3.80 | 3.32 | 0–4.5 | 3.59 | 3.31 | 0–4.30 |
a
All means reported are arithmetic.
b
n.d. = none detected.