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

Table 2

Frequency and profiles of virulence genes for E. faecalis and E. faecium isolates.

	E. faecalis (n = 37)	E. faecium (n = 7)	All isolates (n = 44)
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)
Frequency of virulence genes
Esp	14 (87.5)	2 (12.5)	16 (36.3)
hyl	0 (0)	1 (100)	1 (2.27)
asa1	26 (100)	0 (0)	26 (59.1)
gel E	26 (96.3)	1 (3.7)	27 (61.4)
cyl A	11 (100)	0 (0)	11 (25.0)
None	1 (20)	4 (80)	5 (11.4)
Virulence gene profiles
No genes	1 (2.7)	4 (57.1)	5 (11.3)
gel E only	8 (21.6)	0 (0)	8 (18.2)
asa1 only	1 (2.70)	0 (0)	1 (2.3)
hyl only	0 (0)	1 (14.2)	1 (2.3)
esp only	0 (0)	1 (14.2)	1 (2.3)
gel E, esp	2 (5.4)	1 (14.2)	3 (6.8)
gel E, asa1	13 (35.1)	0 (0)	13 (29.6)
gel E, asa1, esp	1 (2.7)	0 (0)	1 (2.3)
asa1, cyl A, esp	9 (24.3)	0 (0)	9 (20.5)
gel E, asa1, cyl A, esp	2 (5.4)	0 (0)	2 (4.6)