Table 5.

Log removal calculated using the data from Table 3 and two different assumptions about the concentration of nondetects.

Microbe†	Log removal
	Nondetects = 95% LOD‡	Nondetects = 0 copies wet g−1
Bacteroidales‐like CowM3	0.72	0.72
Bovine Bacteroides	0.79	0.79
Bovine polyomavirus	0.51	0.51
Bovine enterovirus	0.78	1.59
Clostridium perfringens	0.19	0.44
Campylobacter jejuni	0.15	0.98
Bovine coronavirus	0.78	>2.00
Group A rotavirus	0.17	0.51
Salmonella spp.	−0.01	0.90
Bovine adenovirus	−0.01	1.10
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	0.00	>2.00

^† Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia are excluded because each was only detected once in digester influent.

^‡The 95% limit of detection (LOD) is assumed to equal its theoretical value for quantitative polymerase chain reaction of three copies per reaction, which corresponds to 7 × 10³ copies wet g⁻¹ for microbes with DNA genomes and 4 × 10⁴ copies wet g⁻¹ for microbes with RNA genomes.