Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
Research
Enterococcus faecalis Clones in Poultry and in Humans with Urinary Tract Infections, Vietnam
Louise Ladefoged Poulsen, Magne Bisgaard, Nguyen Thai Son, Nguyen Vu Trung, Hoang Manh An, and Anders Dalsgaard
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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