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Table 2 Prevalence percentage of virulence gene profiles and phylo-groups among the STEC isolates from feces and meat

From: Pathogenic potential of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains of caprine origin: virulence genes, Shiga toxin subtypes, phylogenetic background and clonal relatedness

 

Virulence gene profiles (No. of isolates)

Phylo-group (No. of isolates)

Source

stx1(40)

stx1/stx2(13)

stx1/eae (3)

stx2(1)

A (7)

B1 (47)

U (3)

Feces (43)

72.1% (31)

20.9% (9)

4.7% (2)

2.3% (1)

11.6% (5)

86.1 (37)

2.3% (1)

Meat (14)

64.3% (9)

28.6% (4)

7.1% (1)

0 (0)

14.3% (2)

71.4% (10)

14.3% (2)