Table 1.

List of the BLAST hits of Phi-191 DNA sequence aligned to the vtx -phages sequences from typical VTEC strains

Strain	Similarity%	Acc. No.	Reference
E. coli O145:H28 str. RM13514	87%	CP006027.1	[35]
E. coli O103:H2 str. 12009 DNA	86%	AP010958.1	[35, 36]
Phage VT2 phi_272	85%	HQ424691.1	-
E. coli O157:H7 str. TW14359	67%	CP001368.1	[37]
E. coli O157:H7 str. EC4115	67%	CP001164.1	[38]
E. coli O111:H- str. 11128	65%	AP010960.1	[36]
E. coli O157:H7 str. Sakai	65%	BA000007.2	[39]
E. coli Xuzhou21	65%	CP001925.1	[40]
E. coli O157:H7 EDL933	65%	AE005174.2	[41]
Stx2 converting phage II	64%	AP005154.1	[42]
Stx2 converting phage I	63%	AP004402.1	[43]
Enterobacteria phage Min27	63%	EU311208.1	[44]
Stx1 converting phage	60%	AP005153.1	[42]

The similarity score indicates the query coverage values with 98%-99% sequence identity. The hits with similarity values down to 60% are shown.