Table 5.

The frequency (%) of avian pathogenic E. coli (n = 100) and human uropathogenic E. coli (n = 100) in terms of carrying three and four virulence encoding genes

Virulence encoding genes	APEC1	UPEC2
sfa, iss, ompT	0	0
sfa, papG II, iss	0	2
iutA, iss, sfa	0	0
iss, ompT, papG II	41	2
iss, ompT, iutA	53	1
iutA, papG II, ompT	39	2
sfa, ompT, iutA	0	1
iss, iutA, papG II	53	1
ompT, papG II, iss	0	1
papG II, iutA, sfa	0	1
sfa, iss, ompT, papG II	0	1
papG II, iutA, ompT, iss	37	1
iutA, ompT, iss , sfa	0	0
iutA, ompT, papG II, sfa	0	3
iss, papG II, iutA, sfa	0	0

¹Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli;

² Human uropathogenic E. coli.