Fig. 4
Detection sensitivity of the qPCR assays. The sensitivities of the 4 pairs of primers (16S-F2/R2,
; 16S-F3/R3,
; dehp2-F6/R6,
; dehp2-F7/R7,
) were checked against serial diluted bacterial gDNA (~ 50 ng μl− 1 for both B. cenocepacia LMG 16656 and P. caribensis LMG 18531) at the following rate: 101, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 106. Results shown are the means of three replicates with the error bars representing the standard deviations