TABLE 3.
Effects of starvation on plate counts and 16S rRNA cell counts of E. coli O157:H7
| Day | R2A agar plate counts
|
16S rRNA cell counts
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | log10 CFU/ml | n | log10 cells/ml | |
| 0 | 3 | 5.37 (0.01)a | 1 | 5.79 |
| 2 | 3 | 6.58 (0.02) | 1 | 6.93 |
| 5 | 3 | 6.60 (0.02) | 1 | 6.88 |
| 10 | 3 | 6.65 (0.01) | 1 | 6.91 |
| 14 | 3 | 6.61 (0.01) | 1 | 7.23 |
The values in parentheses are standard errors of the means.