Table 9.
Effect of chlorine dioxide on microbial counts (log CFU/mL) of chicken feces after 14 days incubation (Experiment 2)

Items	CON¹	PC²	T2000³	T3000⁴	SEM⁵	P-value
Total microorganism	9.83	8.18	9.13	9.90	0.727	0.353
Lactic acid bacteria	8.67^b	3.19^a	8.62^b	8.34^b	0.602	<0.01
Yeast	7.06^b	0.59^a	7.18^b	6.41^b	0.329	<0.01
Fungi	2.61^bc	ND⁶	3.83^c	2.30^b	0.447	0.001
Coliform	3.64^b	ND	2.51^b	0.41^a	0.553	0.002

CON=distilled water.
PC=commercial germicide.
T2000=ClO₂ (2,000 ppm) solution.
T3000=ClO₂ (3,000 ppm) solution.
SEM=standard error of the mean.
ND=not detected.
Different superscripts within row are significantly different (P<0.05).