Research Article

The Distribution of Cytotoxic Necrotizing Factors (CNF-1, CNF-2, CNF-3) and Cytolethal Distending Toxins (CDT-1, CDT-2, CDT-3, CDT-4) in Escherichia coli Isolates Isolated from Extraintestinal Infections and the Determination of their Phylogenetic Relationship by PFGE

Table 5

The distribution of factor-toxin genes of 156 ExPEC isolates by clinical origin/the virulence factor distributions in the urinary and nonurinary tract foci in CDT- and CNF-positive ExPEC isolates.

N (%) urinary system n = 121 (78)N (%) nonurinary system n = 35 (22)
Isolates VFsUrine (n = 121)Wound (n = 11)Blood (n = 9)Sputum (n = 7)Aspirate (n = 5)CSF (n = 1)Peritoneal fluid (n = 1)

cnf168 (56)3 (27)3 (32)3 (43)1 (20)
cnf210 (8)1 (9)1 (11)
cnf316 (13)2 (18)1 (11)1 (14)
cnf1cnf35 (4)1 (11)
cdt112 (10)2 (22)2 (29)2 (40)11
cdt22 (2)1 (9)1 (11)
cdt32 (2)1 (14)1 (20)
cdt42 (2)1 (9)1 (20)
cdt1cdt41 (1)2 (18)1 (11)
cnf1-cdt13 (2)1 (9)