Table 1

Target and non-target strains used in this study and results obtained with the chromogenic media DFI and ESIA, the α-glucosidase based PCR assay and the rRNA probe based VIT test.
Species (number of strains)	Origin	ESIA*	DFI⁺	PCR	VIT

E. cloacae (1)	ATCC13047	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. cloacae (1)	LMG3008	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. cloacae (6)	clinical, cosmetics	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. cloacae (2)	food	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. dissolvens (1)	ATCC23373	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. hermanii (1)	wild strain	neg	neg	neg	neg
P. agglomerans (1)	ATCC27155	neg	neg	neg	neg
P. agglomerans (2)	food, cosmetics	neg	neg	neg	neg
Pantoea sp. (1)	food	neg	neg	neg	neg
K. oxytoca (1)	cheese	neg	neg	neg	neg
S. liquefaciens (1)	cosmetics	neg	neg	neg	neg
S. ficaria (1)	production environment	neg	pos	neg	neg
Serratia sp. (1)	cosmetics	neg	neg	neg	neg
Salmonella Enterititis (1)	wild strain	neg	neg	neg	neg
S. sonnei (1)	wild strain	neg	neg	neg	neg
E. coli (1)	ATCC25922	neg	neg	neg	neg

E. sakazakii (1)	ATCC29544	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (1)	ATCC29004	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (1)	ATCC51329	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (20)	fruit powder¹	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (5)	cosmetics	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (15)	human²	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (1)	milk powder³	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (2)	baby food ⁴	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (1)	milk ⁵	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (15)	production environment⁶	pos	pos	pos	pos
E. sakazakii (1)	production environment	pos	neg	pos	pos

* positive = turquoise colonies typical for E. sakazakii ⁺positive = blue-green coloured colonies typical for E. sakazakii ¹including strains (Acc. number): 858 (AY752936), 759 (AY752939), 954 (AY752938), AY752943 ²including strains (Acc. number): ES 11 (AY803187), ES 4 (AY803186) ³including strain (Acc. number): FSM 265 (AY803191) ⁴including strain (Acc. number): FSM 393 (AY752941) ⁵including strain (Acc. number): FSM 33 (AY752940) ⁶including strains (Acc. number): FSM 468 (AY752942), FSM 266 (AY803190)
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