Fig. 9
Survival of S. aureus on swatches during shipping. Gemini™ swatches were inoculated with 2.9 × 107 S. aureus and either processed immediately (Day 0) or stored for 1–7 days at 4 °C before processing for the number of viable S. aureus that remained on the swatches. For each time point, 4 inoculated and 1 uninoculated Gemini™ swatches were processed. Two independent experiments were performed. Sampling variation was noted between some of the days. Whisker Box Plot shows the median (middle line in each bar) the 25th and 75th percentiles (the limits of the box), and the upper max and min points along with each data point for each day and individual experiment