TABLE 1.

Populations of E. coli F-11775 in wounds of apples originally not contaminated with the bacterium

Length (h) of fruit incubation after removal from chamber	Bacterium populationa (CFU/wound) after exposure to fruit flies for:
	24 h	48 h
0	NDb	5.2 × 104
24	2.0 × 105 ±2.4 × 105	1.6 × 105 ± 2.1 × 105
48	8.3 × 104 ± 14.0 × 104	1.1 × 105 ± 0.1 × 105

^aValues are means ± standard errors of the means. 

^bND, not detectable.