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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Water Health. 2013 Sep;11(3):387–396. doi: 10.2166/wh.2013.005

Table 3.

Prevalence of the esp variants present in E. faecalis and E. faecium and int in tropical marine (M1 and M2) and fresh waters (F1 and F2) and wet and dry beach sands in the enterococci isolates. Percents are presented in parenthesis.

M1 water
(n=99)		 M1 wet sand
(n=55)		 M1 dry sand
(n=46)		 M2 water
(n=25)		 M2 wet sand
(n=21)		 M2 dry sand
(n=25)		 F1
(n=19)		 F2
(n=66)
esp E. faecalis 10 (10) 1 (2) 1 (2) 2 (8) 1 (5) ND* ND* 6 (9)
esp E. faecium 2 (2) 6 (11) 3 (7) 2 (8) 2 (10) 5 (20) ND* 5 (8)
int 3 (3) ND* ND* ND* ND* ND* 3 (16) ND*