Research Article

Village-Indigenous Chicken Bacterial Carriage after the Heavy Rains of 2018, Kenya: Indicator on Environmental Contamination with Pathogenic/Zoonotic Bacteria

Table 1

Number of chickens that had the respective total bacterial concentration.

SlaughterhouseTotal number of samples testedNumber of birds that had respective counts (cfu/ml) plus respective percentage in brackets
n × 104n × 106n × 108n × 109n × 1010n × 1011n × 1012

Kariokor384 (10.5%)4 (10.5%)1 (2.6%)1 (2.6%)3 (7.9%)22 (57.9%)3 (7.9%)
Burma363 (8.3%)1 (2.8%)19 (52.8%)11 (30.6%)2 (5.6%)
Kangemi401 (2.5%)12 (30%)15 (37.5%)8 (20%)4 (10%)
Combined data1144 (3.5%)4 (3.5%)5 (4.4%)14 (12.3%)37 (32.5%)41 (36.0%)9 (7.9%)

n is the unit figure that needs to be multiplied by the respective power 10; cfu/ml is colony forming units per millimeter.