FIG. 2.
Representative ribotype patterns obtained for the STEC strains. For each pattern the letter indicates the group and the subscript number indicates minor differences within a group. The positions of molecular size standards are indicated on the left. (A) Six ribotype patterns obtained with HindIII (patterns A1 to A2 and B1 to B4) for the 25 STEC analyzed in this study compared to the pattern of O157:H7. (B) Five ribotype patterns obtained with EcoRI (patterns C, D1 to D2, E, and F) compared to the pattern of O157:H7. The O157:H7 profile was obtained with the EDL933 reference strain.