Prevalence of Virulence Factors and Drug Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Enterococci: A Study from North India

Table 3

Association of biofilm formation with virulence genes.

Biofilm formation	Genotype profile	E. faecalis (26)	E. faecium (28)
+++	gelE^+ only	7 (26.92)	5 (17.85)
+++	esp^+ only	2 (7.69)	5 (17.85)
+++	asa1^+ only	8 (30.76)	6 (21.42)
+++	asa1^+ gelE^+	5 (19.23)	1 (3.5)
+++	gelE^+ esp^+	0	1 (3.5)
+++	gelE^+ esp^+ asa1^+	0	1 (3.5)
++	gelE^− esp^− asa1^−	6 (23.07)	9 (32.14)