In the present study, 100 Avian-Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) isolates from colibacillosis-suspected broilers and 100 Avian Faecal Escherichia coli (AFEC) isolates from healthy broilers in Iran were examined by PCR for confirmation of their serogroups and phylogenetic background, and their association with ten virulence-associated genes (VAG) including fimC, iutA, chuA, sitA, iss, cvaA/B, hylA, stx1, stx2, and yjaA. Serogroups O78, O1, O2 and O18 were the prominent strains including 54 % of the APEC and 23 % of the AFEC strains. At phylotyping, the majority of APEC strains belonged to phylogenetic group E (22 %) while for the AFEC strains, half of the isolates were not assigned to any group but the predominant phylogroup was E (27 %). Virulence genotyping, revealed that the predominant VAGs were iutA (97 %), fimC (87 %) and iss (84 %) among APEC strains, and fimC (95 %), iss (93 %) and sitA (87 %) in AFEC strains. This is the first time that phylogroup E is described as predominant phylogroup among APEC strains also, this is the first report on the presence of the stx1 gene in APEC strains isolated from broilers in Iran. The results of the present study indicate that VAGs are more prevalent in APEC strains belonging to O2 and O78 serogroups, also phylogroups E and D have more frequency of VAGs than other phylogroups. Therefore, the APEC strains belonging to O2 and O78 serogroups and phylogroups E and D probably have more pathogenicity to broilers.
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