Table 2.

E. coli isolates

Species	Description	No. of isolates	% isolates from the indicated ECoR group
			A	B1	B2	D
Human
Homo sapiens	Human, healthy	19a	37	11	42	11
Homo sapiens	Human, urinary tract infection	20b	5	25	45	25
Domestic mammals
Sus scrofa domestica	Domestic pig, healthy	22c	73	5	5	18
Sus scrofa domestica	Domestic pig, urinary tract infection	15d	53	47	0	0
Wild mammals
Capreolus capreolus	Roe deer	23e,f	4	39	17	39
Erinaceus europaeus	European hedgehog	22e	27	41	5	27
Lepus europaeus	European hare	8e	13	75	0	13
Lutra lutra	European otter	7e	43	29	14	14
Martes sp.	Marten	19e	32	16	26	26
Meles meles	European badger	7e	0	57	29	14
Mus musculus	House mouse	9e	0	78	0	22
Oryctolagus cuniculus	European rabbit	6e	33	17	17	33
Procyon lotor	Raccoon	22e	23	27	23	27
Rattus norvegicus	Brown rat	4e	0	50	25	25
Sciurus vulgaris	Red squirrel	17e	6	29	47	18
Sus scrofa	Wild boar	22e,f	23	50	14	14
Vulpes vulpes	Red fox	21e	14	57	14	14
Wild birds
Accipiter nisus	Eurasian sparrow hawk	13e	8	31	31	31
Asio otus	Long-eared owl	5e	0	20	0	80
Buteo buteo	Common buzzard	14e	7	29	21	43
Turdus merula	Common blackbird	22e	9	36	27	27

^aSampled by Thomas Wex.

^bSamples from urine of patients with urinary tract infections collected in a hospital in 2009 by Steffen Vogel.

^cSamples from 18 different pig production units in Eastern Germany in 2009 and 2010.

^dSampled by Per Klemm from pigs with pyelonephritis in an animal clinic.

^eSamples collected in the Lausitz (Lusatia), a region in southeastern Germany, taken from the rectum (mammals) or cloaca (birds) of dead animals which were collected directly after they were discovered as accident victims or which were delivered to Hermann Ansorge and Olaf Zinke between 2007 and 2011.

^fRectal samples which were taken during several hunts between 2007 and 2010.