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Table 1 Presence (CFU 100 mL −1 ) of enterococci, number (%) of enterococcal isolates recovered and species composition at particular sites

From: Drug-resistant and hospital-associated Enterococcus faecium from wastewater, riverine estuary and anthropogenically impacted marine catchment basin

 

WWTP

Vistula river

Total

 

Gdansk-Wschod

Gdynia-Debogorze

  
 

W-INF

W-BR

W-EFF

W-MOut

D-EFF

D-MOut

VR

 

Presence

CFU 100 mL−1

(0.7–23) × 107

na

(0.1–6.1) × 105

3 – 60

(0.8–3.1) × 105

2 – 80

1 – 30

-

Number (%) of recovered isolates

33 (7.7)

55 (12.8)

82 (19.2)

45 (10.5)

73 (17.1)

71 (16.6)

69 (16.1)

428 (100)

Species composition: number (%)

E. faecium

19 (57.6)

36 (65.5)

53 (64.6)

29 (64.4)

41 (56.2)

40 (56.3)

26 (37.7)

244 (57)

E. faecalis

5 (15.2)

8 (14.5)

19 (23.2)

4 (8.9)

19 (26.0)

3 (4.3)

5 (7.2)

63 (14.7)

E. hirae

8 (24.2)

11 (20.0)

7 (8.5)

11 (24.4)

12 (16.4)

27 (38.0)

37 (53.6)

113 (26.4)

E.casseliflavus/gallinarum

1 (3.0)

nd

2 (2.5)

nd

1 (1.4)

nd

nd

4 (1.0)

E. durans

nd

nd

1 (1.2)

1 (2.3)

nd

1 (1.4)

nd

3 (0.7)

 

E. avium

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

1 (1.5)

1 (0.2)

  1. na – not applicable, nd – not detected.
  2. Abbreviations of sampling points’ locations and their description provided in Figure 1.