2.6. Statistical analyses
Virus concentrations found after each treatment were
compared and analysed for significance using ANOVA with
Tukey's pairwise comparisons. Its use was justified as the data
was normally distributed and showed homoscedasticity. A
Pearson productemoment correlation coefficient was calculated
to determine the relationship between FCM and TEM
counts. All statisticalanalysiswas performedinMinitabv16.1.0