List of strains of Escherichia coli

Strains
Innocuous: Laboratory: Pathogenic:
 * 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)
 * Escherichia coli BL21(DE3)
 * 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
 * E. coli O157:H7 is an enterohemorrhagic strain also 2006 North American E. coli outbreak
 * E. coli O104:H4, also 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
 * Shigella flexneri
 * Shigella dysenteriae
 * Shigella boydii
 * Shigella sonnei