TABLE 2.

Occurrence of virulence genes in C. jejuni strains under study.

Source	No. of C. jejuni strains	Frequency of virulence genes, no. (%)
		cdtA	cdtB	cdtC	flaA	virB11	wlaN	iam
Pigeon	16	14 (87.50)	16 (100.00)	14 (87.50)	16 (100.00)	1 (6.25)	0 (0.00)	8 (50.00)
Chicken	14	9 (64.29)	6 (42.86)	10 (71.43)	14 (100.00)	2 (14.29)	3 (21.43)	6 (42.86)
Human	11	10 (90.91)	11 (100.00)	9 (81.82)	11 (100.00)	1 (9.09)	2 (18.18)	0 (0.00)
Total	41	33 (80.49)	33 (80.49)	33 (80.49)	41 (100.00)	4 (9.76)	5 (12.20)	14 (34.15)
P-value∗		0.173	0.000∗	0.545	1.000	0.763	0.164	0.021∗

^∗Statistical significance was calculated using Fisher’s exact test (P-value < 0.05).