Table 2.

Ward type, type of infection and outcome reported for patients with invasive enterococcal infections

	E. faecalis (140)	E. faecium (112)	Other species (7)	All
Number of isolates	140 (54.1 %)	112 (43.2 %)	7	259
Type of ward
Surgery	32 (22.9 %)	31 (27.7 %)	3	66 (25.5 %)
Haematology/oncology	20 (14.3 %)	32 (28.6 %)	2	54 (20.8 %)
ICU	29 (20.7 %)	27 (24.1 %)	1	57 (22.0 %)
Internal medicine	29 (20.7 %)	11 (9.8 %)	0	40 (15.4 %)
Other neurology (n = 9), dialysis centres (n = 8), neonatal (n = 5), gynaecology (n = 4), urology (n = 5), infectious disease (n = 3), geriatric (n = 2), palliative medicine (n = 1)	30 (21.4 %)	11 (9.8 %)	1	42 (16.2 %)
Type of infection
Bacteraemia, septicaemia, including:	109 (77.8 %)	82 (73.2 %)	4	195 (75.3 %)
Bacteraemia	76 (54.3 %)	63 (56.2 %)	3	142 (54.8 %)
Septicaemia	33 (23.5 %)	19 (16.9 %)	1	53 (20.5 %)
- source abdominal infection	16 (11.4 %)	11 (9.8 %)	2	29 (11.2 %)
- source urinary tract infection	10 (7.1 %)	1 (0.9 %)	0	11 (4.2 %)
- other known source	26 (18.6 %)	18 (16.1 %)	0	44 (17.0 %)
- unknown source	57 (40.7 %)	52 (46.4 %)	0	109 (42.1 %)
Endocarditis	7 (5.1 %)	2 (1.8 %)	0	9 (3.5 %)
Abdominal infections	18 (12.9 %)	22 (19.6 %)	3	43 (16.6 %)
Pleural infections	2 (1.4 %)	2 (1.8 %)	0	4 (1.5 %)
Meningitis	2 (1.4 %)	3 (2.7 %)	0	5 (1.9 %)
Pelvic infections	2 (1.4 %)	1 (0.9 %)	0	3 (1.2 %)
Outcomea
All reported	130	107	6	243
Fatal cases	20 (15.4 %)	23 (21.5 %)	1b	44 (18.1 %)
Cured	33 (25.4 %)	25 (23.4 %)	2	60 (24.7 %)
Under treatment	77 (59.2 %)	59 (55.1 %)	3	139 (57.2 %)

^a% of all cases with the known outcome; ^b E. gallinarum

In the column for each species the % values were calculated separately taking the number of the isolates belonging the each species as 100 %