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. 2005 Aug;73(8):4766–4776. doi: 10.1128/IAI.73.8.4766-4776.2005

TABLE 1.

Bacterial strains used in this study and their lysine decarboxylase activity

Strain Serotype DEC no.a LDC test Strain Serotype DEC no.a LDC test
EPEC strains
    572-56 O55:H6 1A +
    C54-58 O55:H6 1B +
    F196-5 O55:H6 1C +
    F563-55 O55:H6 1D +
    AC-C2 O55:H6 1E +
    3787-62 O55:H6 2A +
    5513-56 O55:NM 2B +
    607-54 O55:H6 2C +
    F60-51 O55:H6 2D +
    2087-77 O55:H6 2E +
    5624-50 O55:H7 5A +
    660-79 O55:H7 5B +
    5380-66 O55:H7 5C +
    C586-65 O55:H7 5D +
    C997-63 O55:H7 5E +
    5338-66 O111:H21 6A +
    C142-54 O111:H12 6B +
    2277-67 O111:H12 6C +
    F436-51 O111:H12 6D +
    184-83 O111:NM 6E +
    2254-75 O128a:H2 11A +
    3733-71 O128a:H2 11B +
    A9619-C2 O45:H2 11C +
EHEC strains
    3299-85 O157:H7 3A +
    46240 O157:H7 3B +
    3104-88 O157:H7 3C +
    3009-88 O157:H7 3D +
    3077-88 O157:H7 3E +
    493/89 O157:H- +
    C1520-77 O157:H7 4A +
    C999-87 O157:H7 4B +
    C374-83 O157:H7 4C +
    C681-87 O157:H7 4D +
    C7-88 O157:H7 4E +
    EDL-933 O157:H7 +
    2198-77 O111a:NM 8A −
    3030A-86 O111:H8 8B −
    86-10049 O111:NM 8C +
    C130-53 O111:H11 8D +
    C194-65 O111:H8 8E −
Texas outbreakb O111:H8 −
    3323-61 O26:H11 9A +
    2262-79 O26:N 9B −
    C240-52 O26:N 9C +
    C814-67 O26:H11 9D +
    45 O26:H11 9E +
    E335021/OF O128:H2 11D
    WM63 O128:H2 11E +
    F1-50 O111:H2 12A
    2966-56 O111:H2 12B +
    3942-67 O111:NM 12C +
    9101-83 O111:H2 12D
    3291-86 O111:N 12E +
    C916-70 O128:H21 14A +
    C691-71 O128:H21 14B +
    9088-83 O128a:H21 14C +
    1791-79 O128:NM 14D +
    C639-77 O128:H21 14E +
    5430-66 O111:H21 15A +
    448-71 O111:H21 15B +
    2660-77 O111:H21 15C +
    2708-78 O111:H21 15D +
    2394-80 O111:H21 15E +
RDEC strain
    RDEC-1 O15:NM +
    H30 O26:H11 +
    3047-86 O26:H11 10B +
    1557-77 O26:H11 10C +
    C12-52 O26:H11 10D +
    900105 O26:H11 10E +
ETEC strains
    75001 O157:H43 7A +
    902034 O149:NM 7B +
    820691 O157:H43 7C +
    831015 O157:H43 7D +
    861575 O157:NM 7E +
    3350-73 O128:H7 13A +
    5024-71 O128:H7 13B +
    C500-74 O128:H7 13C +
    C1083-79B O128:H7 13D +
    2384-81 O128:H47 13E +
E. coli K-12 strains
    MG1655c +
a

Diarrheagenic E. coli classification data were provided by T. Whittam (61).

b

E. coli O111:H8 Texas outbreak isolate obtained from the Texas Department of Health.

c

E. coli strain MG1655 was obtained from Blattner et al. (6).