Table 3

Characteristics of probes used for real time polymerase chain reaction

Probe	Specificity	Position	Dye	Sequence (5′–3′)	Reference
Position referring to the Escherichia coli* reference sequence.
UNI	Eubacteria	321–37	VIC	ACTGAGACACGGTCCA	von Wintzingerode⁷⁸
ENTER	Enterobacteriaceae	1418–32	FAM	CTTTTGCAACCCACT	Modified from Sghir ⁸⁰
BACT	Bacteroides, Prevotella, Porphyromonas	1081–97	FAM	CACTTAGCCGACACCT	Dore⁴⁹