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Distribution of virulence factors and genes among Enterococcus faecalis isolates
| Virulence factors/genes | Origin |
Total n=72 (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human n=39 (%) | Dog n=26 (%) | Cat n=7 (%) | ||
| Gelatinase | 9 (23.1) | 19 (73.1) | 3 (42.9) | 31 (43.1) |
| Aggregation substance | 9 (23.1) | 2 (7.7) | 0 | 11 (15.3) |
| Cytolysin | 11 (28.2) | 0 | 0 | 11 (15.3) |
| gelE | 27 (69.2) | 10 (38.5) | 1 (14.3) | 38 (52.8) |
| asa1 | 21 (53.8) | 13 (50) | 0 | 34 (47.2) |
| hyl | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| esp | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| cylA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
