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. 2005 Jul;187(13):4584–4591. doi: 10.1128/JB.187.13.4584-4591.2005

TABLE 3.

Association of the number of virulence genes and the proportion of animal and human S. aureus strains

No. of virulence genes No. of animal strains (n = 77) No. of human strains (n = 168) P Odds ratio 95% Confidence interval
2 0 5 0.33 0.19 0.01-3.5
3 3 14 0.28 0.45 0.1-1.6
4 17 41 0.75 0.9 0.5-1.7
5 39 80 0.68 1.1 0.7-1.9
6 15 27 0.58 1.3 0.6-2.5
7 3 1 0.09 6.77 0.7-66.2