TABLE 3.

Summarized PCR results obtained with V. cholerae and other bacteria using ompW and toxR-specific primers

Strain	No. of strains positive/total no. of strains tested
	ompWa	toxRb
V. cholerae O1c	36/36	36/36
V. cholerae O139	22/22	22/22
V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139c	176/176	155/159
V. cholerae (rough/OUTd)	20/20	16/16
Other Vibrio sppe	0/40	0/40
Aeromonas spp.	0/7	0/7
E. colif,g	0/28	0/28
Shigella spp.	0/19	0/19
Salmonella spp.	0/16	0/16
Pseudomonas spp.g	0/7	0/7
Klebsiella spp.	0/2	0/2
S. aureusg	0/1	0/1

^aUsing the primers 1 and 2 (Table 2). 

^bUsing the primers 5 and 6 (Table 2). 

^cIncludes two ATCC strains. 

^dO untypeable. 

^eStrains are listed in Table 1. 

^fStrains include enteropathogenic, enteroinvasive, enterotoxigenic, enterohemorrhagic, and enteroaggregative types. 

^gIncludes one ATCC strain.