Table 1.

Clinical enteropathogenic strains analyzed in the real-time PCR assay system

Strain/species	n
Salmonella	26
S. enteritidis strain ATCC 13076	1
S. enteritidis	6
S. infantis	2
Other Salmonella spp.	17
Shigella	49
S. flexneri strain ATCC 12022	1
S. boydii	6
S. dysenteriae	3
S. flexneri	5
S. sonnei	6
Other Shigella spp.	28
Campylobacter	41
C. jejuni subspp. jejuni strain ATCC 33560	1
C. coli	10
C. jejuni	10
Other Campylobacter spp.	20
Other enteropathogens (negative controls)	34
Diffusely adherent E. coli	6
Enteroaggregative E. coli	6
Enteroinvasive E. coli	1
Enteropathogenic E. coli	6
Enterotoxigenic E. coli	6
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli	5
E. coli K-12	1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	1
Klebsiella pneumoniae	1
Proteus mirabilis	1
Total	147a

^aTotal does not include the 3 ATCC strains, which were positive controls.