Table 4.
Frequency of intestinal and extraintestinal virulence traits in Escherichia strains not belonging to the E. coli lineage
| Trait | Frequency (%)a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clade I (n = 19) | Clade III (n = 14) | Clade IV (n = 6) | Clade V (n = 52) | E. albertii (n = 13) | E. fergusonii (n = 6) | |
| astA | 21 | 50 | 0 | 67 | 23 | 0 |
| eaeA | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 |
| cdtA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 38 | 0 |
| hylD | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| elt (LT-A) | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| aer/iutA | 16 | 7 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 17 |
| iroN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| fyuA | 5 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 17 |
| kpsE | 74 | 100 | 67 | 88 | 85 | 100 |
| ibeA | 5 | 14 | 17 | 44 | 62 | 0 |
| ompT | 47 | 79 | 33 | 77 | 23 | 0 |
a
n, number of strains screened.