TABLE 6.
Distribution of Sporichthya strains
| Continent | Country | No. of soil samples (pH range)
|
% of positive samples | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tested | From which Sporichthya sp. was isolated | |||
| Africa | Egypt | 10 (7.7–9.2) | 0 | 0 |
| Tanzania | 5 (4.8–8.0) | 0 | 0 | |
| Uganda | 5 (6.5–7.4) | 0 | 0 | |
| Asia | India | 22 (6.9–8.5) | 1 (7.9) | 5 |
| Indonesia | 29 (4.4–7.7) | 0 | 0 | |
| Japan | 87 (3.9–7.9) | 4 (6.3–7.3) | 5 | |
| Malaysia | 14 (3.6–6.5) | 0 | 0 | |
| Myanmar | 5 (6.8–7.2) | 0 | 0 | |
| Singapore | 9 (4.7–6.9) | 0 | 0 | |
| Taiwan | 11 (4.7–8.4) | 2 (7.1–8.0) | 18 | |
| Europe | Austria | 1 (5.3) | 0 | 0 |
| Belgium | 7 (3.5–7.3) | 1 (7.0) | 14 | |
| Denmark | 13 (4.7–8.6) | 0 | 0 | |
| France | 35 (5.3–8.3) | 4 (7.0–7.7) | 11 | |
| Greece | 1 (7.8) | 0 | 0 | |
| The Netherlands | 1 (5.2) | 0 | 0 | |
| Spain | 1 (7.1) | 1 (7.1) | 100 | |
| United Kingdom | 15 (4.5–8.1) | 3 (7.3–7.7) | 20 | |
| North America | Canada | 11 (5.3–8.2) | 0 | 0 |
| United States | 34 (4.5–8.3) | 2 (6.1–7.8) | 6 | |
| Oceania | Australia | 70 (4.1–9.2) | 0 | 0 |
| Papua New Guinea | 7 (6.0–7.2) | 1 (6.8) | 14 | |
| Solomon Islands | 7 (7.2–7.9) | 0 | 0 | |
| South America | Argentina | 16 (5.2–8.5) | 1 (7.2) | 6 |
| Bolivia | 24 (4.2–8.1) | 1 (6.4) | 4 | |
| Brazil | 16 (4.9–7.6) | 0 | 0 | |
| Ecuador | 5 (7.1–7.7) | 0 | 0 | |
| Paraguay | 5 (5.5–7.3) | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 466 (3.5–9.2) | 21 (6.1–8.0) | 4.5 | |