Table 5.
Relationships Between Virulence Factors Genes and Resistance Genes in Uropathogenic E. coli Isolates
| Correlations | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| colM | colB | colV | colE1 | colE2-E9 | colIa-lb | fimH | hlyA | traT | CsgA | Crl | bla−CTX-M-15 | bla−oxa-2 | bla−oxa-10 | |
| ColM | NA | 0.681** | 0.550* | 0.719** | 0.586* | 0.540* | 0.568* | 0.559* | 0.678** | 0.658* | 0.477 | 0.617** | 0.861* | 0.693** |
| ColB | NA | 0.747** | 0.851** | 0.609* | 0.767** | 0.466 | 0.611* | 0.572* | 0.671** | 0.797** | 0.668 | 0.853** | 0.517** | |
| ColV | NA | 0.774** | 0.677** | 0.788** | 0.673** | 0.515 | 0.690** | 0.479 | 0.746* | 0.717** | 0.657 | 0.256** | ||
| Col E1 | NA | 0.672** | 0.821** | 0.549* | 0.591* | 0.743** | 0.595* | 0.722** | 0.670** | 0.814** | 0.494 | |||
| Col E2-E9 | NA | 0.665** | 0.422 | 0.445 | 0.518 | 0.667** | 0.584* | 0.775* | 0.615** | 0.372** | ||||
| Col Ia-Ib | NA | 0.289 | 0.691** | 0.667** | 0.767** | 0.668* | 0.788** | 0.661** | 0.418** | |||||
| fimH | NA | 0.309 | 0.715** | 0.187 | 0.350* | 0.454 | 0.437** | 0.023* | ||||||
| hlyA | NA | 0.545* | 0.749** | 0.520* | 0.538* | 0.557 | 0.250* | |||||||
| traT | NA | 0.511 | 0.254 | 0.551 | 0.508 | 0.116 | ||||||||
| CsgA | NA | 0.430 | 0.744 | 0.677 | 0.466 | |||||||||
| Crl | NA | 0.683 | 0.736 | 0.571 | ||||||||||
| bla−CTX-M-15 | NA | 0.635 | 0.501 | |||||||||||
| bla-Oxa-2 | NA | 0.750 | ||||||||||||
| bla−Oxa-10 | NA | |||||||||||||
Notes: Statistical analysis of associations between virulence factors (VFs). P values were calculated by Fisher’s exact test. *Correlation is significant at 0.05 level (2-tailed). **Correlation is significant at 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.