TABLE 3.
Antibody levels in colonized versus noncolonized individuals
| Antigen | Level [median (SEMa)] |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonized (n = 26) | Not colonized (n = 89) | ||
| Surface antigens | |||
| Teichoic acid | 912 (123) | 422 (91) | 0.013 |
| ClfA | 170 (56) | 134 (21) | 0.239 |
| ClfB | 191 (45) | 163 (25) | 0.092 |
| Bsp | 233 (91) | 161 (31) | 0.067 |
| Extracellular proteins | |||
| Alpha-toxin | 325 (62) | 165 (17) | 0.056 |
| Lipase | 364 (45) | 176 (27) | 0.007 |
| SEA | 483 (94) | 271 (45) | 0.006 |
| TSST | 1043 (196) | 378 (91) | 0.022 |
| SSS | 161 (178) | 115 (86) | 0.275 |
| Efb | 394 (83) | 438 (37) | 0.402 |
| Eap | 268 (90) | 85 (52) | 0.009 |
a
SEM, standard error of the mean.