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. 2011 Oct;77(19):6954–6963. doi: 10.1128/AEM.05357-11

Table 1.

E. coli strains used to determine method specificitya

Strain VTEC PCR module specificity
stx1 stx2 eae O103 O111 O145 O157 O26
C210-03 (O157,stx1b,stx2c, eae) + + + +
ED 620 (O157, eae) + +
ED 621 (O157, eae) + +
C1178-04 (O145,stx1a,eae) + + +
ED 645 (O145, stx2a, eae) + + +
ED 657 (O145, stx2a, eae) + + +
C125-06 (O103,stx2,eae) + + +
ED 287 (O103, stx1a, eae) + + +
ED 259 (O103, stx1a, eae) + + +
MM13-02 (O111,eae) + +
ED 476 (O111, stx1a, stx2a, eae) + + + +
C1188-02 (O26,stx1a,stx2a,eae) + + + +
ED 643 (O26, stx1a, eae) + + +
ED 654 (O26, stx2a, eae) + + +
a

Results derived from CT means ± SD from three repetitions. Reference strains are shown in boldface. The presence of the target gene(s) and serogroup for each strain is indicated in parentheses.