Determination of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence Factors and Their Association with Clinical and Demographic Factors in Kenya

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with E. faecalis/faecium infections.

Variables		E. faecalis	E. faecium	value
Gender	Male	17	6	0.0973
	Female	20	1
Age	1–13 years	2	0	0.0270
	14–29 years	13	2
	30–49 years	11	3
	≥50 years	11	2
Admission status	Inpatient	21	7	0.0370
	Outpatient	16	0
Immunocompromised	Yes	8	2	0.6490
	No	29	5
Source of infection	HAI	6	4	0.0367
	CAI	31	3
Infection type	SSTI	23	6	0.3926
	UTI	14	1

Bold-Fisher’s exact test significance of . HAI, hospital-associated infections; CAI, community-acquired infections; SSTIs, skin and soft tissue infections; UTIs, urinary tract infections.