The Water Cycle, a Potential Source of the Bacterial Pathogen Bacillus cereus

Table 3

Occurrence of B. cereus sl in an agricultural soil^*.

Depth of soil sampling	October 2011		April 2012
	Total B. cereus sl   of soil	Thermoresistant B. cereus sl   of soil	Total B. cereus sl   of soil	Thermoresistant B. cereus sl   of soil
0–2 cm	5.00	5.22	4.43	4.95
2–10 cm	5.05	5.23	4.91	4.95
10–20 cm	4.98	5.07	5.23	5.15
20–30 cm	5.16	5.02	5.02	5.06
30–60 cm	ND^**	ND	5.04	5.08
60–90 cm	ND	ND	4.37	4.88

Values from triplicate measurements of the samples (see Section 2).
^**ND: not done.