Maximumlikelyhood distances of 15 verotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) strains, isolated fromfoods of illegal import based onmultilocus sequence typing (MLST) following the Achtman's
E. coliMLST scheme (http://mlst.warwick.ac.uk/mlst/). The newly established sequence types are underlined. The strain ST 3101 (O153:HNM) is a Slovenian groundport isolate. The E. coli
Ec40 was used as ST 48 reference strain