Fig. 3From: Comparison of competitive exclusion with classical cleaning and disinfection on bacterial load in pig nursery unitsPercentage of positive samples before (enumerations) and after enrichment (detection) for E. coli  (a-b), faecal coliforms (c-d) and MRSA (e-f) given for CE (dark grey bars) and control units (light grey bars). At each sampling moment and in total 135 and 540 samples were taken per unit type, respectively. Significant differences between sampling moments within one type of unit are indicated by letters above bars. Significant differences between protocols within one sampling moment are indicated by a star (*) on the horizontal axis. BC, before cleaning; AC/AD, after cleaning or after disinfection; W1, after 1 week of production and W5: after 5 weeks of productionBack to article page