Research Article

The Use of Two Culturing Methods in Parallel Reveals a High Prevalence and Diversity of Arcobacter spp. in a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Table 4

Number of strains (%) of the different Arcobacter spp. recovered by direct plating (DP) and postenrichment (PE).

SpeciesTotal recovered (%)Only by DP (%)Only by PE (%)DP& PE (%)

A. butzleri247 (58.3)102 (46.8)140 (74.1)5 (29.4)
A. cryaerophilus150 (35.4)109 (50.0)36 (19.0)5 (29.4)
A. thereius9 (2.1)2 (0.9)4 (2.1)3 (17.6)
A. skirrowii5 (1.2)1 (0.5)3 (1.6)1 (5.9)
A. defluvii8 (1.9)1 (0.5)4 (2.1)3 (17.6)
A. ellisii2 (0.5)2 (0.9)00
A. cloacae2 (0.5)02 (1.1)0
A. nitrofigilis1 (0.2)1 (0.5)00

ā€‰424218 (51.4%)189 (44.6%)17 (4.0%)