Antimicrobial Activity of Lactic Acid Bacteria Starters against Acid Tolerant, Antibiotic Resistant, and Potentially Virulent E. coli Isolated from a Fermented Sorghum-Millet Beverage

Table 2

Identities of presumptive E. coli isolates based on 16S rRNA sequencing.

Presumptive identity	Code	Closest relatives	Identity score, % sequence similarity^a	E value
	BMC
Escherichia coli	4, 8, 19	Escherichia coli	97-98	0.0
	25	Shigella sonnei, Shigella flexneri	97	0.0
	30	Shigella flexneri	97	0.0
	31	Lysinibacillus macroides	98	0.0

^aPercent similarity with related sequences from the NCBI database. Numerical code for a specific isolate.