Table 3. The association between biofilm-related genes in this study.

		ica	fnbA	cna	bap
ica	Phi-coefficient	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	–
fnbA	Phi-coefficient	0.39**	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.00	–
cna	Phi-coefficient	0.14*	0.24**	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.05	0.00	–
bap	Phi-coefficient	−0.03	−0.03	−0.02	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	0.70	0.68	0.79	–

Notes:

^**A p-value less than 0.01 (p < 0.01) was considered as statistically.

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed), Sig., Significance.

Using a Phi-coefficient, there was strong positive significant correlations between ica and fnbA (Phi. = 0.39, p < 0.01) and between fnbA and cna (Phi. = 0.24, p < 0.01).