Table 2.
Phage incidence throughout the production cycle of trials 1 and 2 for farmhouses treated with and without SalmoFree.
| Farmhouse/dose daya | No. of samples positive for amplification of phages geneb | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial I | Trial II | |||||||
| 1b | 1a | 3b | 3a | 1b | 1a | 3b | 3a | |
| Control house no. 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Control house no. 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Treated house No. 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Treated house no. 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
aNomenclature of the dose day corresponds to the number of the dose followed by a letter indicating whether it was taken a day before (b) or after (a) the corresponding dose.
bNo. of positive samples for amplification of the phage tail fiber protein gene of phages from the total samples where total sample size per time point is 5.