Table 7.
Relationships Between Virulence Factors Genes and Resistance Genes in Fecal 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 | – | 0.487 | 0.552* | 0.636* | 0.616* | 0.574* | 0.208 | 0.132 | 0.366 | 0.371 | 0.018a | . | −0.245* |
| ColB | – | NA | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ColV | NA | 0.423 | 0.600* | 0.680** | 0.458 | 0.269 | 0.221 | 0.434 | 0.545 | −0.144a | – | 0.063 | ||
| Col E1 | NA | 0.260 | 0.384 | 0.298 | 0.057 | −0.007 | 0.206 | 0.212* | 0.090a | – | 0.134 | |||
| Col E2-E9 | NA | 0.972** | 0.226 | 0.037 | −0.016 | 0.187 | 0.129* | −0.215a | – | −0.394 | ||||
| Col Ia-Ib | NA | 0.196 | −0.013 | −0.019 | 0.182 | 0.158* | −0.251a | – | −0.380 | |||||
| fimH | NA | 0.719** | 0.740** | 0.825** | 0.857* | −0.057a | – | 0.224 | ||||||
| hlyA | NA | 0.859** | 0.843** | 0.847 | −0.288a | – | 0.168 | |||||||
| traT | NA | 0.833 | 0.905 | −0.265 | – | 0.155 | ||||||||
| CsgA | NA | 0.918 | −0.234 | – | 0.116 | |||||||||
| Crl | NA | −0.252 | – | 0.160 | ||||||||||
| bla−CTX-M-15 | NA | – | 0.714 | |||||||||||
| bla-Oxa-2 | NA | – | ||||||||||||
| 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). aCannot be computed because at least one variable is constant.
Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.