Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
Research
Enterococcus faecalis Clones in Poultry and in Humans with Urinary Tract Infections, Vietnam
Table 1
MLST, PFGE, and virulence gene profiles for Enterococcus faecalis isolated from humans with urinary tract infections and poultry from the same households, Vietnam, January 2008–January 2010*
Strain† | Source | MLST type | PFGE pattern | Virulence genes |
Duration of symptoms, mo | |||||
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asa1 | CylA | efaA | Esp | gelE | EF0591 | |||||
90U | Urine | 16 | A1 | – | + | + | + | – | + | 1 |
90P | Poultry | 16 | A2 | + | + | + | + | – | + | NA |
122U | Urine | 16 | A2 | + | + | + | + | – | + | 7 |
122P | Poultry | 16 | A1 | + | + | + | + | – | + | NA |
186U | Urine | 93 | A3 | – | – | + | – | – | – | 24 |
186P | Poultry | 93 | A3 | – | – | + | – | – | – | NA |
191U | Urine | 413 | A3 | – | + | + | + | – | + | 24 |
191P | Poultry | 413 | A1 | – | + | + | + | – | + | NA |
204U | Urine | 16 | A1 | – | + | + | + | – | + | 2 |
204P | Poultry | 16 | A1 | – | + | + | + | – | + | NA |
217U | Urine | 415 | A3 | + | – | + | – | + | – | 0.5 |
217P | Poultry | 415 | A3 | + | – | + | – | + | – | NA |
221U | Urine | 141 | A6 | – | – | + | – | + | – | 120 |
221P | Poultry | 141 | A6 | – | – | + | – | + | – | NA |
*MLST, multilocus sequence typing; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; +, positive; –, negative; NA, not applicable.
†All isolates except 221U were recovered from female patients. Strains isolated from patients with urinary tract infections are designated as U and strains isolated from poultry as P.