Probe reliabilities.^a

a<p>Combined results from <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068901#pone-0068901-t003" target="_blank">tables 3</a> and <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068901#pone-0068901-t004" target="_blank">4</a>.</p>b<p>Probability that a strain with a hit or amplicon from this probe is not EHEC.</p>c<p>Probability that a strain with a hit or amplicon from this probe is not <i>Shigella.</i></p

Minimum spanning tree based on complete genomes including plasmids.

<p>Pathogenicity phenotypes are indicated by colors. The pathogenicity of uncolored strains is not known. Full strain IDs and accession numbers of the genome sequence files are given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068901#pone.0068901.s003" target="_blank">Table S1</a>.</p

EHEC strains.

<p>EHEC strains.</p

Minimum spanning tree based on complete genomes excluding plasmids.

<p>Pathogenicity phenotypes are indicated by colors. The pathogenicity of uncolored strains is not known. Full strain IDs and accession numbers of the genome sequence files are given in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0068901#pone.0068901.s003" target="_blank">Table S1</a>.</p

Determination of segments from bops.

<p>A: Part of a .scores file in which binary strings indicate the presence or absence of a series of bops for strains A–E. Numbered lines above the string show contiguous bops that are identically distributed among strains A–E. B: A corresponding .segScores file in which the binary strings indicate the presence of absence of the segments shown in panel A.</p

Experimental reliability of EHEC-specific and Shigella-specific PCR probes.

<p>Experimental reliability of EHEC-specific and Shigella-specific PCR probes.</p

<i>In silico</i> reliability of EHEC-specific and Shigella-specific PCR probes.

a<p>Hits in a BLAST search of the GenBank non-redundant nucleotide database.</p

AMP: Ampicillin 256 μg/ml.

<p>AMP: Ampicillin 256 μg/ml.</p

ZOX: Ceftizoxime 0.03 μg/ml.

<p>ZOX: Ceftizoxime 0.03 μg/ml.</p

FEP: Cefepime 0.0156μg/ml.

<p>FEP: Cefepime 0.0156μg/ml.</p