Year Winter Spring Summer Fall
Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
2011 6/55a               9/55 11/55 6/55 4/55
2012 5/55 9/55 10/55 7/55 11/55 8/55 9/55 10/55 11/55 8/55 6/56 7/56
2013   4/56 1/56 9/56 9/56 9/56 10/56 12/56        
Total/month 11/110 13/111 11/111 16/111 20/111 17/111 19/111 22/111 20/110 19/110 12/111 11/111
Total/season 35/332 53/333 61/332 42/332
aNumber of positive samples/number of samples analyzed
Table 3: Monthly distributions of L. monocytogenes on 1329 RTE food samples collected over 24 months in the years 2011-2013 in Kefalonia, Greece