Table 4.

Escherichia coli O104:H4 isolation from artificially contaminated milk samples in the absence of contaminating bacteria: comparison between the EU RL VTEC official method and the E. coli O104 Dynabeads method.

E. coli O104:H4 in the initial suspension (CFU number)	E. coli O104:H4 isolated with the EU RL method (CFU number)	E. coli O104:H4 isolated with the O104 Dynabeads method (CFU number)
106	>200	>200
105	159	>200
104	117	>200
103	43	>200
102	8	27
101	0	4