Volume 21, Number 11—November 2015
Research
Climatic Influences on Cryptococcus gattii Populations, Vancouver Island, Canada, 2002–2004
Christopher K. Uejio
, Sunny Mak, Arie Manangan, George Luber, and Karen H. Bartlett
, Sunny Mak, Arie Manangan, George Luber, and Karen H. Bartlett
Table 2
Mean Cryptococcus gattii concentrations for soil and air samples or proportion of positive tree swab samples, Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada, 2002–2004*
| Medium | Level | Mean C. gattii concentration† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parksville | Duncan | Courtenay | Errington | LQFP | Nanaimo | Victoria | Other | ||
| Soil, CFU (no. samples) | Plot | 2,006 (49) | 80,139 (18) | – | – | – | 1,635 (28) | ||
| Soil, CFU (no. samples) | Area | 572 (12) | 56 (43) | 556 (17) | 4 (14) | 0 (7) | 0 (6) | 0 (18) | – |
| Air, CFU (no. samples) | Plot | 100 (113) | 202 (38) | 2 (34) | |||||
| Tree, % (no. samples) | Plot | 26 (57) | 95 (21) | – | – | 60 (15) | 50 (22) | ||
| Tree, %, (no. samples) | Area | 55 (55) | 10 (42) | 15 (34) | 13 (9) | 0 (4) | 5 (110) | ||
*LQFP, Little Qualicum Falls Park.
†Blank cells indicate areas not included in the analysis. Dashes (–) indicate study areas with a small sample size that were lumped into the column entitled “other.” This information is reported for the plot and area analysis levels.
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