Table 4. Prevalence of seven genetic islands in COPD NTHi isolates from patients with and without exacerbations.
Island | Isolates from COPD patients without exacerbations (n = 37) | Isolates from COPD patients with exacerbations (n = 64) | PR* | P value |
G1 | 10(27.0) | 15(25.8) | 0.87 | 0.6871 |
G2 | 16(43.2) | 26(40.6) | 0.94 | 0.797 |
G6 | 37(100) | 61(95.3) | 0.97 | 0.3714 |
G8 | 28(75.7) | 49(76.6) | 1.01 | 0.9196 |
G9 | 33(89.2) | 53(82.8) | 0.95 | 0.5417 |
G10 | 18(48.6) | 35(54.7) | 1.12 | 0.5582 |
G11 | 1(2.7) | 7(10.9) | 4.04 | 0.2713 |
PR = prevalence ratio.