Table 6.
Distribution of antibiotic-resistance genes in the Escherichia coli strains isolated from fertile and infertile women
| Groups of women (No. of UPEC strains) | Antibiotic-resistance genes (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aadA1 | tetA | tetB | dfrA1 | qnr | aac (3)-IV | Sul1 | blaSHV | CITM | cat1 | cmlA | |||
| Infertile women | History of UTIs (16) | 11 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | |
| No history of UTIs (10) | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | — | ||
| Total (26) | 15 (57.69) | 25 (96.15) | 11 (42.30) | 15 (37.69) | 19 (73.07) | 24 (92.30) | 20 (76.92) | 9 (34.61) | 25 (96.15) | 5 (19.23) | 1 (3.84) | ||
| Fertile women | History of UTIs (13) | 8 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 1 | — | |
| No history of UTIs (5) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | ||
| Total (18) | 9 (50) | 17 (94.44) | 6 (33.33) | 10 (55.55) | 11 (61.11) | 14 (77.77) | 12 (66.66) | 5 (27.77) | 14 (77.77) | 1 (5.55) | — | ||
| Total (44) | 24 (54.54) | 42 (95.45) | 17 (38.63) | 25 (56.81) | 30 (68.18) | 38 (86.36) | 32 (72.72) | 14 (31.81) | 39 (88.63) | 6 (13.63) | 1 (2.27) | ||
Abbreviations: UPEC, uropathogenic Escherichia coli; UTI, urinary tract infection.