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. 2021 Oct 20;9(2):e00817-21. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.00817-21

TABLE 2.

Ratio of viable plate counts to qPCR-based cell density estimates in the dialysis bag mesocosm experimentsa

Isolate Value for:
Day 1 Day 3 Day 8 Day
MMH594 4.45 5.57 3.47 4.54
ERV62 4.18 5.85 0.07 0.29
TX0104 2.91 5.26 1.54 3.36
MTUP9 2.59 3.19 1.07 0.74
MTmid8 6.41 7.77 0.56 0.41
AZ19 5.42 3.68 0.80 0.002
a

The 16S rRNA gene qPCR-based count estimates were converted to cells per milliliter assuming four copies of the rRNA gene operon per genome.