Table 5.

Characterization of antibiotic resistant coliform bacteria isolated from HEs.

	Isolate	Phenotype	ESBLs	Efflux Pumps	tet Genes
O1	E. coli	-	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1	-	-
O2	E. coli	-	TEM,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	-	tetA
O3	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	-	tetA
O4	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	-	-
O5	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2	+	-
O6	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA,tetE
O7	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA,tetE
O8	E. coli	ESBL	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA,tetE
O9	E. coli	ESBL	CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA,tetE
O10	E. coli	AmpC	SHV,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA,tetE
O11	L. amnigena	ESBL	TEM, SHV,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-15	+	tetA,tetE
O12	E. cloacae	ESBL	-	-	-
O13	L. amnigena	-	-	-	-
O14	E. cloacae	-	-	-	-
O15	L. amnigena	-	CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA
O16	L. amnigena	-	CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25	-	tetA
O17	L. amnigena	ESBL + AmpC	-	-	-
O18	L. amnigena	ESBL	-	-	-
P1	E. coli	-	TEM,CTX-M-8/25	-	-
P2	E. coli	-	TEM,SHV	+	-
P3	E. coli	-	-	+	-
P4	E. coli	-	TEM	+	tetA
P5	E. coli	-	TEM,CTX-M-8/25	+	tetA
P6	E. coli	-	-	+	tetA
P7	E. coli	-	TEM,CTX-M-1	+	tetA
P8	E. coli	-	TEM,CTX-M-1	+	tetA
P9	E. coli	-	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1	+	tetA
P10	C. freundii	ESBL	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25,CTX-M-15	+	tetA
P11	C. freundii	-	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25,CTX-M-15	-	tetA,tetE
P12	C. freundii	ESBL	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25,CTX-M-15	-	tetA,tetE
P13	C. freundii	ESBL	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25,CTX-M-15	-	tetA,tetE
P14	C. freundii	ESBL	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-8/25,CTX-M-15	-	tetA,tetE
P15	C. gillenii	-	TEM,OXA,CTX-M-8/25	-	-
P16	K. variicola	-	TEM,SHV,OXA,CTX-M-1,CTX-M-2,CTX-M-15	+	tetA,tetE
P17	K. pneumoniae	-	TEM,SHV,OXA,CTX-M-1	-	tetA

O1-O18—isolates from the National Cancer Institute of Saint Elizabeth (NCISE). P1-P17—isolates from the Psychiatric Clinic (PC).