TABLE 1.
Distribution of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes between ST72 MRSA and ST72 MSSA isolates
| Category | Gene | No. (%) of isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRSA (n = 63) | MSSA (n = 44) | P value | ||
| Antibiotic resistance | blaZ | 61 (96.83) | 31 (70.45%) | <0.001 |
| mecA | 63 (100) | 0 (0) | <0.001 | |
| aadD | 35 (55.56) | 2 (4.55) | <0.001 | |
| aph(3′)-III | 20 (31.75) | 2 (4.55) | 0.001 | |
| erm(C) | 18 (28.57) | 4 (9.09) | 0.04 | |
| mph(C) | 19 (30.16) | 1 (2.27) | <0.001 | |
| Virulence | ebh | 57 (90.48) | 28 (63.64) | 0.03 |
| sraP | 59 (93.65) | 25 (56.82) | <0.001 | |
| splE | 28 (44.44) | 41 (93.18) | <0.001 | |
| esaG3 | 60 (95.24) | 26 (59.09) | <0.001 | |
| esaG4 | 58 (92.06) | 24 (54.55) | <0.001 | |