Table 4.

Correlation of antibiotic resistance and presence of respective antibiotic resistance gene in specimens 1–16.

Sample	Type	Growth	Antibiotics		Genes*		Antibiotics		Genes*
			amoxicillin	augmentin	blaTEM-1	cfxA	tetracycline	doxycycline	tetM	tetQ
2	Primary	Growth					R		X
4	Primary	Growth	R			X
6	Primary	No Growth								X
7	Primary	Growth					R	R	X
8	Primary	Growth
9	Primary	Growth
10	Primary	Growth
11	Primary	Growth
15	Primary	Growth							X
1	Persistent	Growth
3	Persistent	No Growth
5	Persistent	No Growth
12	Persistent	No Growth		X
13	Persistent	Growth
14	Persistent	No Growth							X
16	Persistent	Growth		X

X: gene detected; R: antibiotic resistance in cultured colony

^*blaZ and tetW were not found in any of these samples.