List of strains of Escherichia coli
Strains
Innocuous:
Laboratory:
- E. coli K-12, one of two laboratory strains (innocuous)
- Clifton wild type (!)
- W3110
- DH5α
- Dam dcm strain
- HB101
- Escherichia coli B, the other of the two lab strains from which all lab substrains originate
- Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
Pathogenic:
- Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)
- Enteropathogenic E. coli(EPEC)
- Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC)
- Enterohemorrhagic E. coli(EHEC)
- Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC)
- Uropathogenic E. coli(UPEC)
- Verotoxin-producing E. coli
- 2006 North American E. coli outbreak
- 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak
- Escherichia coli O121
- Escherichia coli O104:H21
- Escherichia coli K1, meningitis
- Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC), morbus Crohn
- Escherichia coli NC101
- Shigella