Table 3: The number of river water samples positive and negative for coliphages, minimum and maximum for total coliphages in nine sub-cities of Addis Ababa using single agar layer between February and April 2017.

Rivers Sub-Cities Phage +ve Samples Phage -ve Samples Min. [pfu/100ml] Max. [pfu/100ml]
R1 SC-1 2 3 0 600
R 2 SC-1 0 2 0 0
R 3 SC-1 2 3 0 400
R 4 SC-2 1 1 0 300
R 5 SC-2 0 2 0 0
R 6 SC-2 1 1 0 200
R 7 SC-3 1 0 150 150
R 8 SC-3 3 0 20 70
R 9 SC-3 4 1 0 200
R 10 SC-3 1 1 0 80
R 11 SC-4 1 4 0 360
R 12 SC-4 0 5 0 0
R13 SC-5 0 2 0 0
R14 SC-5 1 1 0 400
R15 SC-5 0 2 0 0
R16 SC-6 1 4 0 50
R17 SC-6 4 1 0 290
R18 SC-7 1 1 0 60
R19 SC-7 1 1 0 290
R20 SC-7 1 1 0 5200
R21 SC-7 2 0 250 3100
R22 SC-3 1 0 80 80
R23 SC-6 1 0 70 70
R24 SC-2 0 2 0 0
R25 SC-5 2 0 100 120
R26 SC-9 1 0 1960 1960
R27 SC-9 2 0 870 2200
R28 SC-9 3 1 0 1500
R29 SC-8 4 1 0 1600
R30 SC-8 3 0 60 1700

R–river, SC–Sub-city, min.–minimum, max. –maximum