Table 4.

Correlation between resistance and virulence genes of MDR E. coli isolates.

ABR Genes	Virulence Genes
	Correlation Coefficients (r)
	bfp	east	traT	eae	ompA	stx-1
blaKPC	−0.11	0.30	0.41	−0.05	0.11	−0.07
blaOXA-48	−0.16	−0.06	0.15	0.38	−0.05	0.22
blaSHV	−0.24	−0.34	−0.44	−0.10	0.24	−0.15
blaTEM	0.39	0.44	0.51	0.17	−0.39	0.01
blaCTX-M	0.05	0.39	0.31	0.23	−0.22	0.08
tetA	0.36	−0.10	0.11	0.15	0.26	0.22
tetB	−0.18	0.06	−0.05	−0.08	0.18	−0.11
qnrA	−0.26	0.03	0.00	−0.11	0.09	0.10
qnrB	0.63	−0.19	0.12	−0.05	0.13	0.30