Abstract
The Antimicrobial Resistance and Prevalence of Enterococcus Species in Saudi Arabia
Highlights
The genus Enterococcus consists of thirtyeight species
Phylogenetic tree analysis using 16S rRNA sequences of all 19 strains and other related Enterococcus species from GenBank were positioned the present Enterococcus strains into E. faecalis and E. faecium (Fig. 1)
The different microorganism that isolated from intestinal patients of the University Hospital in Taif, Saudi Arabia were documented as E. faecium with 34% and E. faecalis with 33%4
Summary
The most common identified living microorganisms usually found in the intestines of human and animal cells including E. faecalis and E. faecium[1,2]. Several reports pointed out that gastroenteritis is the third organism isolated between infection in hospitals of Saudi Arabia and the most isolated microorganisms common in the bloodstream[4,5]. Two types of VRE isolates are included; E. faecium and E. faecalis. Both species were isolated to resist eight antibiotics[3]. Antibiotic resistance factors are transferred by mergers, plasmids or transposons that can act as carriers These genes are transferred to other members of the same microbial species and transmission of horizontal genes may arise through conjugation, transduction and transformation[5,10]
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