Volume 15, Number 3—March 2009
Research
Shiga Toxin–producing Escherichia coli Strains Negative for Locus of Enterocyte Effacement
Hayley J. Newton1, Joan Sloan1, Dieter M. Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Cody C. Allison, Marija Tauschek, Roy M. Robins-Browne, James C. Paton, Thomas S. Whittam, Adrienne W. Paton, and Elizabeth L. Hartland
Table 4
Prevalence of selected pO113 ORFs among LEE-positive strains of STEC*
| Strain | Gene |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pilQ | epeA | trbC | repA | ehxA | espP | iha | subAB | repZ | |
| 85-170 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| EDL933 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| 84-284 | − | − | − | + | + | + | − | − | − |
| EH9 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| 9515477 | − | − | − | + | + | + | − | − | + |
| 9515480 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| 9515474 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| 9924822 | + | − | + | + | + | + | + | − | + |
| 95005698 | − | − | − | + | + | + | − | − | − |
| 95051613 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| EH70 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| E45035 | + | − | + | + | + | − | + | − | − |
| ED142 | + | − | + | + | + | − | + | − | − |
| EH38 | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| EH44 | − | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | + |
| EH6 | + | − | − | + | + | + | + | − | − |
| EH34 | − | − | − | + | − | − | − | − | − |
| EH1 | + | − | + | − | + | + | + | + | + |
| EH68 | − | − | − | + | − | − | + | − | − |
| EH22 |
+ |
− |
− |
+ |
+ |
− |
− |
− |
− |
| % Positive | 35 | 0 | 20 | 95 | 90 | 75 | 75 | 0.05 | 20 |
*ORF, open reading frame; LEE, locus of enterocyte effacement; STEC, Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli.
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