Restriction Profiling of 23S Microheterogenic Ribosomal Repeats for Detection and Characterizing of E. coli and Their Clonal, Pathogenic, and Phylogroups

Table 1

List of standard strains used in this study.

Strains	MTCC	ATCC	Nature
Barcoding/identification studies
Noncandidate strains
Citrobacter freundii	1658	8090	Clinical
Citrobacter koseri	1657	27028	Blood culture
Klebsiella pneumonia	432	33495	Urinary culture
Enterobacter aerogenes	111	13048	Sputum
Candidate strains
	433	15228	Commensal
Escherichia coli	4296	19138	Urine
	448	25922	Clinical sample
Diversity/clonality studies
Escherichia coli	1302	—	K12
	2622	10798	Descendent of K12
	1667	—	DH1
	1304	—	C1
	1687	8739	Crooks strain
	448	9637	W
	2692	53846	Descendent of W
	1303	—	B
	1678	—	BL21
	1679	—	BL21DE3
	1680	—	BL21DE3Lys5

E. coli, namely, K-12, B, C, Crooks, and W, are commonly used as lab strains. Whole genomic data of these strains except strain C is available (NCBI Genomes).