Table 4.
Distribution of 186 ExPEC strains in relation to virulence traits and fluoroquinolone resistance status.
Trait | Fluoroquinolone resistance |
p-value | |
---|---|---|---|
FQ-S (122) | FQ-R (64) | ||
Virulence | |||
focH | 95 | 51 | 0.8523 |
papC | 83 | 25 | 0.0002 |
sfa | 13 | 8 | 0.8080 |
afa | 18 | 7 | 0.5082 |
hlyA | 3 | 0 | 0.5523 |
iucD | 3 | 10 | 0.0015 |
cnf | 24 | 19 | 0.1443 |
VG ≥2 | 78 | 39 | 0.3163 |
VG <2 | 44 | 25 | |
VG ≥3 | 32 | 15 | 0.7254 |
VG <3 | 90 | 49 | |
Phylogroup | |||
A | 3 | 0 | 0.5523 |
B1 | 45 | 20 | 0.5182 |
E | 32 | 23 | 0.1796 |
D | 42 | 21 | 0.8715 |
VG = Virulence gene.