Table 6.

Correlation matrix (r²) between phenotypes, genotypes and antibiotic resistance across the E. coli isolates.

	ESBLs Production	MBLs Production	blaNDM	blaIMP	blaTEM	blaCTX-M	blaSHV	aac(6′)1b-cr
MAR index	0.611 **	0.342 **	0.330 **	0.289 **	0.366 **	0.365 **	0.251 *	0.360 **
ESBLs phenotype	1	0.347 **	0.305 **	0.262 *	0.696 **	0.293 **	0.377 **	0.205 *

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). p values calculated by Fisher’s exact test.