Table 1: Microbial loads of Mangoes compared between the fly-control farm and farms without controls.

Part Microbial Counts Fly-control (n=8) No Fly-control (n=10) p-value
Median counts (25% and 75% interquartiles)
External
(cfu/cm2)
TPC 60 (50 and 190) 2600 (700 and 5100) 0.0019
TCPC 10 (0 and 30) 950 (100 and 1820) 0.0225
E. coli counts 1 (0 and 7) 85 (42 and 150) 0.0191
Internal
(cfu/mL)
TPC 4.0 (1.5 and 6.5) 27.0 (4.2 and 39.2) 0.0022
TCPC 0.0 (0.0 and 0.0) 7.5 (6.0 and 14.5) 0.0116
E. coli counts 0.0 (0.0 and 2.5) 7.0 (3.5 and 10.1) 0.0208

External and internal microbial loads were compared between fruits from fly-control farm and those from farms without fly-control. Counts are presented as median and interquartiles and the p-values were obtained using Mann-Whitney test.