TABLE 1.
Summary of 120 E. coli isolated from ready-to-eat cilantro, arugula and mixed salad.
| Direct plating |
Enrichment |
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| Phylogroup | ST | Fresh | Stored | Fresh | Stored | Total |
| A | 165 | 17 | 17 | |||
| 871 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 8677 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 10-like | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Novel | 3 | 3 | ||||
| B1 | 58 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 14 | |
| 212 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 224 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 297 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 345 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 641 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 1250 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1704 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1727 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 2165 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 4684 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 5891 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 6021 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 6186 | 15 | 22 | 37 | |||
| 124-like | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 165-like | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 6186-like | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Novel | 1 | 1 | ||||
| C | 88 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
| D | 69 | 1 | 1 | |||
| E | 7576 | 2 | 2 | |||
| F | 457 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Unknown | Novel | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 22 | 18 | 19 | 61 | 120 | |
Green cells highlight arugula samples and purple cells highlight mixed salad samples. All other samples originated from cilantro.