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. 1998 Dec;64(12):4658–4662. doi: 10.1128/aem.64.12.4658-4662.1998

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
a

The values in parentheses are standard errors of the means.