Fig. 2.

Survival rates of (A) Ent. faecium strains ST651ea, ST7119ea, ST7319ea; and test organisms (B) L. monocytogenes ATCC15313 and (C) L. innocua ATCC33090 in competition with Ent. faecium strains in the gastrointestinal simulation model. Survival rates in comparison with the previous timepoint are indicated on the top of the correspond boxplots. Asterisks above box plots demonstrates statistical significance as determined by Welch's test by comparing the mean log values of each viable bacterial count from the corresponding passage with that of the control. Significance as demonstrated by each asterisk is as follows: *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.001.

Statistical significance for overall passage were quantified by two-way ANOVA and Turkey's test post-hoc analysis of *p ≤ 0.05.