Table 5.

Virulence factors of uropathogenic Escherichia coli classified by phylogenetic group

	Phylogenetic group B2 (n = 276)	Phylogenetic group D (n = 62)	p value
Adhesion molecule
papA	186 (67.4%)	41 (66.1%)	0.848
papEF	40 (14.5%)	7 (11.3%)	0.510
papC	195 (70.7%)	43 (69.4%)	0.840
papG	133 (48.2%)	28 (45.2%)	0.666
papG allele I	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0.999*
papG allele II	196 (71.0%)	46 (74.2%)	0.616
papG allele III	7 (2.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0.357*
fimH	275 (99.6%)	56 (90.3%)	< 0.001*
afa/draBC	38 (13.8%)	12 (19.4%)	0.263
sfaS	15 (5.4%)	5 (8.1%)	0.385*
sfa/focED	47 (17.0%)	0 (0.0%)	< 0.001
bmaE	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0.999*
gafD	0	0
nfaE	1 (0.4%)	2 (3.2%)	0.088*
focG	34 (12.3%)	2 (3.2%)	0.036
Toxin
hlyA	92 (33.3%)	4 (6.5%)	< 0.001
cnf1	110 (39.9%)	0 (0.0%)	< 0.001
cvaC	24 (8.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0.011*
cdtB	0	0
Iron metabolism
fyuA	275 (99.6%)	58 (93.5%)	0.004*
iutA	203 (73.6%)	47 (75.8%)	0.715
Protection, Capsule
kpsMT II	159 (57.6%)	39 (62.9%)	0.444
kpsMT III	3 (1.1%)	2 (3.2%)	0.228*
rfc	4 (1.4%)	1 (1.6%)	0.999*
traT	214 (77.5%)	49 (79.0%)	0.798
Others
PAI	245 (88.8%)	12 (19.4%)	< 0.001
ibeA	18 (6.5%)	1 (1.6%)	0.218*
K1	88 (31.9%)	3 (4.8%)	< 0.001
K5	60 (21.7%)	21 (33.9%)	0.043

PAI pathogenicity island

*Fisher’s extract test