TABLE 3.
The number of Enterococcus spp. isolated from the irrigation return flows and background canal site (MLC) that v/ere characterized for antibiotic resistance in the present study.
| Site | n |
No. of isolates |
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| E. casseliflavus | E. faecalis | E. faecium | E. hirae | E. malodoratus | E. mundtii | E. phoeniculicola | E. thailandicus | ||
| NC | 13 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| DC | 23 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| MC | 26 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| IC | 26 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| CD | 28 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| RCP | 26 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| TFC | 15 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| HC | 16 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| MLC | 12 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Σ= | 185 | 38 | 37 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 5 |