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. 2014 Sep 19;143(7):1388–1397. doi: 10.1017/S0950268814002374

Table 4.

Direct faecal culture (DFC) positive or super-shedding (SS) detected correlated to the number of positives in the days prior to sampling (Pearson's correlation)

Time-frame Test level Number of days prior to sampling point
0    1    2    3    4    5
Sampling period 1 DFC 0·646 0·138 0·713 0·841 −0·303 0·693
Sampling period 2 DFC 0·646 −0·010 −0·270 0·951 0·667 0·945
Sampling period 2 SS 0·347 0·186 −0·104 −0·203 0·676 0·982

Correlation coefficients >0·5 appear in bold font.