TABLE 2.

Diarrheagenic isolates of E. coli and Shigella spp. from patients

Patient	Age	E. coli group and/or Shigella sp.	Gene(s) and/or probe	No. of tested strains/no. of positive strains
				PCR	DNA probe
4	9 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/3	3/2
5	1 yr 4 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	5/2	5/2
6	1 yr 8 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/2	3/2
7	2 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	2/2	2/2
8	3 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	3/2	3/2
10	1 yr	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	1/1	1/1
14	6 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/2	3/2
17	7 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	3/3	3/3
25	2 yr	EIEC	ipaH	2/1	2/1
27	2 yr	EIEC	ipaH	3/1	3/1
29	2 yr	EAEC	CVD432	4/1	4/1
30	2 yr	EAEC	CVD432	3/2	3/2
35	5 mo 11 days	Atypical EPEC	eae	2/1	3/1
39	1 yr 6 mo	EAEC	CVD432	3/3	3/3
42	3 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	5/2	5/2
44	1 yr 8 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	5/1	5/1
48	10 mo	Shigella flexneri	ipaH	5/1	5/1
55	8 mo	EAEC	CVD432	3/1	3/1
		Shigella flexneri	ipaH	4/4	4/4
66	12 mo	Typical and atypical EPEC	eae, bfpA	5/4	5/4
75	1 yr 6 mo	EIEC	ipaH	5/2	5/2
77	5 mo 21 days	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/2	3/2
78	46 days	EAEC	CVD432	4/2	4/2
80	2 yr	Shigella sonnei	ipaH	3/1	3/1
82	3 mo	EAEC	CVD432	4/3	4/3
85	9 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	4/3	4/3
96	1 yr 2 mo	EAEC	CVD432	5/1	5/1
99	1 yr 10 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/2	3/1
103	2 yr 6 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/2	3/3
114	1 yr 8 mo	Shigella sonnei	ipaH	2/1	2/1
117	5 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	3/2	3/3
118	2 mo	Atypical EPEC, EAEC	eae, CVD432	4/2	4/2
127	3 yr	STEC	eae, stx1	3/3	3/3
131	1 yr 2 mo	EAEC	CVD432	3/2	3/2
		Shigella flexneri	ipaH	3/1	3/1
140	10 mo	Typical EPEC	eae, bfpA	4/1	4/1
144	2 mo	EAEC	CVD432	6/1	6/1
150	2 mo	Atypical EPEC	eae	3/3	3/1