Research Article

Occurrence of Virulence Genes and Antimicrobial Resistance of E. coli O157:H7 Isolated from the Beef Carcass of Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia

Table 1

Sequence of primers, their product size, and their annealing temperature.

GenePrimerSequence (5′-3′)Primer length (bp)Annealing temperature (°C)Reference

stx1EVS-1F: ATCAGTCGTCACTCACTGG11055[38]
EVC-2R: CTGCTGTCACAGTGACAAA
stx2EVT-1F: CAACACTGGATGATCTCAG35055[38]
EVT-2R: CCCCCTCAACTGCTAATA
hlyAHly-1F: GGTGCAGCAGAAAAAGTTG16545[39]
Hly-1R: CCACGTCGTCTTTTTCAACA
eaeEAE-1F: AAACAGGTGAAACTGTTGCC49055[20]
EAE-2R: CTCTGCAGATTAACCTCTGC

EAE: effacing and attaching; EV: verocytotoxin; stx: Shiga toxin; bp: base pair; F: forward primer; R: reverse primer; hlyA: hemolysin.