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

Table 4

Corelation between phylogroups, Hae III profiles, and nature of E. coli strains (genome data analysis of 57 E. coli strains collated from Genbank).

Strain	Type	A	B1	B2	D	E	Total	Out of
Commensal	I	10	5	—	—	—	15	21
Commensal	III	—	—	2	—	—	2	21
Commensal	IV	4	—	—	—	—	4	21
EPEC	I	—	—	—	—	7	7	8
EPEC	III	—	—	1	—	—	1	8
EAEC	I	—	4	—	1	—	5	5
EHEC	I	—	2	—	—	—	2	3
EHEC	II	—	1	—	—	—	1	3
ETEC	I	1	1	1	—	—	3	3
UPEC	III	—	—	7	—	—	7	8
UPEC	IV	—	—	—	1	—	1	8
EIEC	III	—	—	3	—	—	3	3
ExPEC	III	—	—	2	2	—	4	4
APEC	III	—	—	1		—	1	1
ENV	IV	—	—	—	1		1	1

APEC: avian pathogenic; EAEC: enteroaggressive; EHEC: enterohemorrhagic; ETEC: enterotoxigenic; EIEC: enteroinvasive; EPEC: enteropathogenic; ENV: environmental; ExPEC: extraintestinal pathogenic; UPEC: uropathogenic.