TABLE 2.

Virulence genes revealed by the analysis of the genomes of E. coli strains ED1 and K12 NEB DH5α using the platform VirulenceFinder 2.0.

		ED1	K12 NEB DH5α
air	Enteroaggregative immunoglobulin repeat protein	+	−
astA	Heat stable enterotoxin-1	+	−
eilA	hilA-like regulator in enteroaggregative E. coli	+	−
gad	Glutamate decarboxylase	++	++
iss	Increased serum survival	−	+

“+” indicates presence of functions; “−” indicates absence of functions. Number of “ + ” indicates the number of sequences of virulence factors detected in genomes.