Table 1. H7 identification of reference strains by MS-H with the QSTAR platform^a.

Strain number	MS-H type	Sequence coverage (%)
		Test 1	Test 2
EDL-933	H7	72	68
E175	H7	72	86
06-1139	H7	79	76
06-3122	H7	80	90
07-0097	H7	67	61
07-0918	H7	61	74
07-1591	H7	78	80
07-1756	H7	75	88
07-1946	H7	75	88
87-1215	H7	82	87
90-2380	H7	71	78
E32511 (non-motile)	No flagellin detected	0	0

^a11 known H7 positive E. coli strains and one non-motile strain (E32511) were twice tested for MS-H, and the sequence coverage were obtained by Mascot database search.