TABLE 1.
HLR to gentamicin and vancomycin among 4,208 clinical isolates of enterococci by species
| Antibiotic | No (%) of resistant strains
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| E. faecalis(n = 3,493) | E. faecium(n = 574) | E. durans(n = 30) | E. gallinarum(n = 50) | E. casseliflavus(n = 21) | E. avium(n = 19) | Other speciesa (n = 21) | |
| Gentamicin | 688 (19.7) | 129 (22.5) | 2 (6.7) | 9 (18) | 4 (18.2) | 2 (10.5) | 4 (21.1) |
| Vancomycin | 1 (0.03) | 17 (2.9) | 24 (48) | 1 (4.8) | |||
| Both gentamicin and vancomycin | 1 (0.03) | 5 (0.9) | 2 (4) | ||||
a
E. faecalis biochemical variant (n = 10), E. hirae (n = 5), E. pseudavium (n = 3), E. mundtii (n = 2), and E. raffinosum (n = 1) isolates are included in this category.