Prevalence of putative virulence factors and antimicrobial susceptibility of Enterococcus faecalis isolates from patients with dental Diseases

Table 2 Distribution of 8 E. faecalis isolates in association of sex, smoking, oral hygiene and dental diseases among 109 patients

Characteristics	Positive E. faecalis*	Negative E. faecalis*	Total No.	P-value***
Female	7	63	70	0.134
Male	1	38	39
Nonsmoker	7	83	90	0.228
Smoker	1	18	19
Poor Oral hygiene	7	68	75	0.222
Good Oral hygiene	1	33	34
Gingivitis +ve	7	64	71	0.161
Gingivitis -ve	1	37	38
necrotic pulps	8**	101	109	0
caries +ve	4**	77	81	0.115
Caries -ve	4	24	28

*colony count: 2 – 50 × 10³colonies/ml.
** Each one patient was treated with antibiotics during the last month.
*** Not significant between positive E. faecalis and each of sex, smoking, oral hygiene, gingivitis, caries but significant with necrotic puples.

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