Table 1A.
Virulence potential (depending the number of present virulence factor genes) in 370 E. faecalis isolates from different infection sites.
| Number of virulence genes | Number (%) of isolates with the respective number of genes |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urine (n = 176) | Wounds (n = 96) | Genital tracta (n = 70) | Blood (n = 18) | Others b (n = 10) | Total (n = 370) | |
| 0 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| 1 | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (20.0) | 4 (1.1) |
| 2–4 | 42 (23.9) | 28 (29.2) | 18 (25.7) | 10 (55.6) | 2 (20.0) | 100 (27.0) |
| 5–7 | 124 (70.5) | 64 (66.7) | 48 (68.6) | 6 (33.3) | 6 (60.0) | 248 (67.0) |
| 8 | 10 (5.7) | 2 (2.1) | 4 (5.7) | 2 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 18 (4.9) |
a
Genital tract specimens – sperm, urethral, vaginal and cervical samples.
b
Others – peritoneal fluid (n = 4), bile (n = 2) and lower respiratory tract samples (n = 4).