Microbial Carriage and Contamination of Mangoes by the Oriental Fruit Fly

Table 2: Microbial load compared between mangoes exposed to flies and those unexposed.

Part	Microbial Count	Control Mangoes (n=12)		Exposed Mangoes (n=12)		p-value
		Median counts ×10³ (25% and 75% interquartiles)
External (cfu/cm²)	TPC	3.00	(1.25 and 6.75)	3.50	(1.00 and 10.50)	0.6012
	TCPC	1.00	(0.00 and 2.00)	2.00	(1.00 and 7.50)	0.1564
	E. coli counts	0.85	(0.42 and 1.50)	4.70	(0.97 and 8.85)	0.0191
	SS counts	0.20	(0.10 and 0.20)	0.90	(0.50 and 1.10)	0.0401
Internal (cfu/mL)	TPC	2.50	(1.30 and 3.70)	13.10	(6.85 and 21.15)	0.0078
	TCPC	7.8	(6.5 and 1.45)	19.0	(9.5 and 43.5)	0.0207
	E. coli counts	7.0	(3.5 and 1.07)	95.0	(10.5 and 146.0)	0.0061
	SS counts	5.0	(3.0 and 1.25)	43.0	(11.7 and 111.3)	0.0078

External and internal microbial loads were compared between control mangoes and exposed mangoes. Counts are presented as median and interquartiles and the p-values were obtained using the Mann-Whitney test.