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Table 2 Detection of the 20 virulence genes of 62 MRSA isolates in this study

From: Molecular epidemiology and characteristic of virulence gene of community-acquired and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Sun Yat-sen Memorial hospital, Guangzhou, Southern China

Virulence genes

No. Of positive isolates

Virulence genes carriage of S. aureus, n (%)

P-value

CA-MRSA

HA-MRSA

(n = 62)

(n = 23)

(n = 39)

sea

37(59.7)

13(56.5)

24(61.5)

0.284

seb

12(19.4)

12(52.2)

-

 

sec

12(19.4)

7(30.4)

5(12.8)

0.039

seg

12(19.4)

3(13.0)

9(23.1)

0.097

seh

2(3.2)

-

2(5.1)

 

sei

13(21.0)

4(17.4)

9(23.1)

0.377

sem

7(11.3)

4(17.4)

3(7.7)

0.086

sen

5(8.1)

3(13.0)

2(5.2)

0.081

seo

6(9.7)

4(17.4)

2(5.1)

0.011

hla

62(100.0)

23(100.0)

39(100.0)

 

hlb

56(90.3)

20(87.0)

36(92.3)

0.357

hlg

61(98.4)

23(100.0)

38(97.4)

0.545

tsst-1

3(4.8)

2(8.7)

1(2.6)

0.134

PVL

28(45.2)

11(47.8)

17(43.6)

0.670

  1. Sea ~ seo, gene encoding staphylococcal enterotoxins; hla ~ hlg, gene encodingα-hemolysin ~ γ-hemolysin; tsst-1, gene encoding toxic shock syndrome toxin 1; PVL, gene encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin