Molecular Characterization Of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecalis Among Inpatients At Iranian University Hospitals: Clonal Dissemination Of ST6 And ST422

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Table 1 The Phenotypic And Genotypic Characteristics Of The 53 Vancomycin-resistant E. faecalis Isolates From Clinical Samples

Number Of Isolates	Gender	Infections	Ward	Virulence Genes	HLGR/Non-HLGR	ST
1	M	UTI	Infectious diseases	efa, gelE, ace	HLGR
2	M	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	421
3	M	BSI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	6
4	F	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, gelE, esp	HLGR
5	F	UTI	Outpatient	efa, gelE, ace, esp,	HLGR
6	F	WI	Surgery	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR
7	M	BSI	Infectious diseases	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, hyl	HLGR
8	M	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR
9	M	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace,,	HLGR	6
10	F	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	Non-HLGR
11	F	BSI	Respiratory	asa1, efa, gelE, esp	HLGR
12	F	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR	6
13	F	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	422
14	M	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR	422
15	F	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	Non-HLGR
16	F	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, ace	HLGR
17	F	UTI	Surgery	asa1, efa, gelE, esp,cylA,hyl	HLGR
18	F	UTI	Rheumatology	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, cylA	Non-HLGR
19	M	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace,esp, cylA	HLGR	422
20	M	UTI	Surgery	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,hyl	HLGR
21	F	RTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, cylA	HLGR	28
22	F	WI	Rheumatology	asa1, efa, ace, esp	Non-HLGR
23	F	UTI	Urology	asa1, efa, ace,,cylA	HLGR
24	M	WI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace	Non-HLGR
25	M	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE,ace, cylA,	HLGR	531
26	F	UTI	NICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	448
27	M	WI	Infectious diseases	efa, esp	HLGR
28	F	EI	NICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace	Non-HLGR
29	M	RTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	422
30	F	UTI	Internal	efa, gelE, esp	Non-HLGR
31	F	RTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR	28
32	F	UTI	Respiratory	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR
33	F	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR	328
34	M	RTI	Surgery	efa, gelE	HLGR
35	M	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	6
36	M	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, cylA, hyl	HLGR	422
37	M	AI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,hyl	HLGR	6
38	M	AI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,hyl	HLGR	531
39	F	RTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	422
40	F	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, esp,cylA	Non-HLGR
41	M	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR
42	F	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,hyl	HLGR	6
43	F	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	495
44	F	Me	CCU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR
45	F	UTI	CCU	asa1, efa, gelE, esp, cylA,	HLGR
46	F	AI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp, hyl	HLGR	448
47	M	UTI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA,	HLGR	6
48	M	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	HLGR	6
49	F	BSI	ICU	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp	Non-HLGR
50	F	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp, hyl	HLGR	6
51	M	UTI	Surgery	asa1, efa, gelE, ace	Non-HLGR
52	F	UTI	Internal	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,hyl	HLGR	6
53	M	UTI	Emergency	asa1, efa, gelE, ace, esp,cylA	HLGR

Abbreviations: F, female; M, male; UTI, urinary tract infection; BSI, bloodstream infection; WI, wound infection; RTI, respiratory tract infection; EI, eye infection; AI, abdominal infection; Me, meningitis; ST, sequence type.

Figure 1 Cluster tree of sequence types (ST) of VRE strains. The tree constructed with the neighbor-joining method. In each branch is shown the corresponding bootstrap NJ values, taken over 1000 replicates,which assign confidence values for the groupings in the tree.