FIGURE 3.

Summary of C. jejuni subtype recovery using enrichment and non-enrichment. Colonies were recovered from three different mixtures comprising strains from four distinct CGF subtypes using enrichment and non-enrichment methods and subjected to subtype-specific enumeration to assess relative rates of recovery. Each mixture was tested in duplicate; the frequency of isolation is based on 100 colonies selected per replicate. (A) The average frequency of recovery between the two trials is shown for each strain. (B) Frequency of recovery by subtype ranking, which was derived from prevalence in the Canadian Campylobacter Comparative Genomic Fingerprinting database (C3GFdb). Boxes represent the first and third quartiles and are split by a line representing the median; whiskers extend to 1.5x the interquartile range of the data. Outliers outside of this range are denoted individually as points.