Table 2.

Impact of temperature, pH and oxygen concentration (kLa) on output variables.

Output variable	Pearson correlation coefficient r			p-value
	Temperature	Initial pH	kLa (h−1)	Temperature	Initial pH	kLa (h−1)
Δ log AFU/ml	− 0.04535	− 0.1721	− 0.6846	0.8725	0.5398	0.0049
Viability	− 0.1690	0.4437	− 0.3592	0.5679	0.1069	0.2005
FSC-H	− 0.1388	0.4694	0.3671	0.6217	0.0775	0.1783
SSC-H	− 0.3603	0.4245	0.173	0.1871	0.1148	0.5374
FT survivability	− 0.387	− 0.6052	− 0.1169	0.1541	0.0168	0.6783

FSC-H Forward scatter height, SSC-H Side scatter height.