Volume 6, Number 5—October 2000
Dispatch
Prevalence of Non-O157:H7 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Diarrheal Stool Samples from Nebraska
Table 2
Results from multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification
Isolate | Serotype | stx1a | stx2 | eae | ehxA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | O157:H7 | + | + | + | + |
A2 | O157:H7 | - | + | + | + |
A3 | O26:H11 | + | - | + | + |
A4 | O157:NM | + | + | + | + |
B1 | O145:NM | + | - | + | + |
B2 | O103:H2 | + | - | + | + |
D1 | O111:NM | + | + | + | + |
D2 | O111:NM | + | + | + | + |
D3 | O157:H7 | - | + | + | + |
D4 | O157:H7 | + | + | + | + |
E1 | Orough:H2 | + | - | + | + |
E2 | O26:H11 | + | - | + | + |
a(+) Denotes presence of gene as assessed by PCR; (-) denotes absence of gene as assessed by PCR.