Table 2.

Number and percentage of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) enterococci in wastewater and river water.

	Sewage			River
Species	HWW	UWW	TWW	URW	DRW
	Strains: number (%)
	MDR (%)
	XDR (%)
E. faecium	36 (42.9)	28 (41.2)	38 (38.8)	0	4 (25.0)
	34 (94.4)	27 (96.4)	33 (86.8)	0	4 (100)
	2 (5.6)	1 (3.57)	1 (2.6)	0	0
E. faecalis	26 (31.0)	20 (29.4)	29 (29.6)	5 (29.4)	1 (6.3)
	23 (88.5)	19 (95.0)	28 (96.6)	3 (60)	1 (100)
	1(3.8)	0	0	0	0
E. durans	1 (1.2)	0	3 (3.1)	0	0
	1 (100)	0	3 (100)	0	0
E. avium	7 (8.3)	4 (5.9)	2 (2.0)	0	0
	7 (100)	4 (100)	2 100)	0	0
E. hirae	2 (2.4)	1 (1.5)	4 (4.1)	0	0
	2 (100)	1 (100)	4 (100)	0	0
E. gallinarum	1 (1.2)	3 (4.4)	1 (1.0)	0	5 (31.3)
	1 (100)	3 (100)	1 (100)	0	4 (80)
E. casseliflavus/	1 (1.2)	0	0	0	0
flawescens	1 (100)	0	0	0	0
Other	10 (11.9)	12 (17.6)	21 (21.4)	12 (70.6)	6 (37.5)
Enterococcus spp.	10 (100)	13 (100)	20 (95.2)	5 (41.6)	6 (100)
	1 (10.0)	0	0	0	0
Number of strains	84	68	98	17	16
MDR (%)	79 (94.0)	67 (98.5)	91 (92.9)	8 (47.0)	15 (93.8)
XDR (%)	4 (4.8)	1(1.5)	1(1.0)	0	0