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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 28.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2015 Jun 30;218(7):627–638. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2015.06.007

Table 4.

Microbiological assay results.

Median 95% Confidence Interval for Median Mean 95% Confidence Interval for Mean
Water Type Pathogen Minimum Maximum Estimate Lower Bound Upper Bound Estimate Lower Bound Upper Bound
Neighbourhood Boreholes* E. coli*** <2.2 9.2 1.1 . . 1.5 0.8 2.1
Giardia** <0.017 <0.088 0.026 0.023 0.029 0.028 0.021 0.036
P. aeruginosa*** <2.2 >16 1.1 . . 3.5 1.4 5.6
Irrigation Channel* E. coli*** 240 >1600 1600 967 2233 1204 949 1460
Giardia** 1.2 98 24.0 0.0 62.5 36.3 9.9 62.6
P. aeruginosa*** 4 >1600 540 0 1180 878 547 1208
New Treatment Plant* E. coli*** <2.2 <2.2 1.1 . . 1.1 1.1 1.1
Giardia** 0.059 4.8 3.3 0 10.3 2.4 1.1 3.6
P. aeruginosa*** <2.2 >16 1.1 . . 2.4 1.0 3.8
Old Treatment Plant* E. coli*** <2.2 >16 1.1 . . 1.8 0.6 3.0
Giardia** 0.11 2.8 0.74 0.52 0.96 1.13 0.53 1.74
P. aeruginosa*** <2.2 >16 1.1 . . 3.3 1.3 5.4
Shallow Wells* E. coli <3 >1600 350 0 781 537 200 874
Giardia <0.01 7.5 0.11 0.00 0.38 1.12 0.00 2.91
P. aeruginosa <2.2 >1600 5 0 16 424 0 934
* -

Drinking water samples corresponding to the referenced sample locations

** -

Units of cysts/L

*** -

Units of MPN/100L