Bacterial Concentration and Diversity within Repetitive Aliquots Collected from Replicate Continuous-Flow Bioreactor Cultures

Table 1.: Geometric Mean (cfu/ml) of Subsets of Bacterial Populations of Each Replicate Bioreactor Culture

Set	Subset:	Coliforms		Enterococcus		Aerobic		Anaerobic
Set	Bioreactor	3 week^{^a}	10-rep^{^b}	3 week	10-rep	3 week	10-rep	3 week	10-rep
A	I	3.77 x10⁵	7.73 x10⁶	1.59 x10⁷	2.94 x10⁷	1.53 x10⁷	2.62 x10⁷	2.02 x10⁷	2.82 x10⁷
	II	1.27 x10⁵	1.49 x10⁵	1.50 x10⁷	2.24 x10⁷	2.96 x10⁷	5.39 x10⁷	1.20 x10⁷	1.54 x10⁷
	III	7.49 x10⁵	7.01 x10⁶	6.08 x10⁷	1.01 x10⁹	1.86 x10⁷	3.06 x10⁷	6.20 x10⁷	1.06 x10⁸
B	IV	1.02 x10⁵	2.06 x10⁵	3.18 x10⁷	5.79 x10⁷	3.04 x10⁷	5.54 x10⁷	3.90 x10⁷	7.77 x10⁷
	V	6.50 x10⁵	3.55 x10⁶	3.00 x10⁷	6.14 x10⁸	5.88 x10⁷	7.49 x10⁷	5.60 x10⁷	9.11 x10⁷
	VI	1.39 x10⁵	1.61 x10⁵	1.22 x10⁸	2.30 x10⁸	3.69 x10⁷	5.98 x10⁷	3.90 x10⁷	7.80 x10⁷

^a = samples taken after 3 weeks of bioreactor equilibration.

^b = ten replicate samples taken over a 3 week period post equilibration.