TABLE 1.

Statistical analysis of the associations between the population transcript accumulations for lasA, lasB, toxA, lasR, and algD during the chronic lung infections associated with CF

Comparison	n = 131		n = 84		n = 35a
	rsb	P	rs	P	rs	P
lasA-lasB	0.595	<0.001	0.560	<0.001
lasB-toxA	0.570	<0.001	0.557	<0.001
lasA-toxA	0.423	<0.001	0.455	<0.001
lasR-lasA			0.759	<0.001	0.731	<0.001
lasR-lasB			0.680	<0.001	0.708	<0.001
lasR-toxA			0.569	<0.001	0.626	<0.001
lasR-algD			0.309	<0.01	0.350	<0.05

^aThirty-five samples which contain P. aeruginosa and no other pathogenic strains. 

^br_s, Spearman rank correlation coefficient.