Table 1B.
Virulence potential (depending the number of present virulence factor genes) in 140 E. faecium isolates from different infection sites.
| Number of virulence genes | Number (%) of isolates with the respective number of genes |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urine (n = 80) | Wounds (n = 42) | Genital tracta (n = 4) | Blood (n = 8) | Othersb (n = 6) | Total (n = 140) | |
| 0 | 12 (15) | 2 (4.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 14 (10) |
| 1 | 30 (37.5) | 14 (33.4) | 0 (0) | 6 (75) | 6 (100) | 56 (40) |
| 2–4 | 38 (47.5) | 24 (57.2) | 4 (100) | 2 (25) | 0 (0) | 68 (48.6) |
| 5 | 0 (0) | 2 (4.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (1.4) |
a
Genital tract specimens – sperm samples (n = 2) and vaginal samples (n = 2).
b
Others – peritoneal fluid (n = 2) and lower respiratory tract samples (n = 4).