Table 5.

Comparative assessment of dog-owner pair samples and controls which at least one of them is positive for virulence genes

Order	Sample code	Host	Virulence gene profile	Pathotype
1	15 D	Dog	stx1/eae	EHEC
	15 O	Owner	stx1/eae	EHEC
2	16 D	Dog	st1	ETEC
	16 O	Owner	-	-
3	31 D	Dog	-	-
	31 O	Owner	eae	EPEC
4	36 D	Dog	ipaH	EIEC
	36 O	Owner	-	-
5	37 D	Dog	ipaH	EIEC
	37 O	Owner	stx1/eae	EHEC
6	8 D	Dog	-	-
	8 O	Owner	ipaH	EIEC
7	14 D	Dog	ipaH	EIEC
	14 O	Owner	-	-
8	44 C	Control	eae/cnf1	EPEC
9	10 C	Control	eae	EPEC
10	43 C	Control	eae	EPEC
11	45 C	Control	eae	EPEC
12	63 C	Control	eae	EPEC
13	55 C	Control	eae	EPEC
14	66 C	Control	stx2	STEC
15	18 C	Control	lt1	ETEC
16	21 C	Control	lt1	ETEC

D, Dog; C, control; O, owner; STEC, Shiga toxin-producing E. coli; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; EHEC, enterohemorrhagic E. coli; ETEC, enterotoxigenic E. coli; EIEC, enteroinvasive E. coli; NTEC, necrotoxigenic E. coli