Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from patients with burns in a regional burn center, Southeastern China

Table 2 Prevalence of virulence genes from 125 S. aureus isolates

Genes	Total (n = 125)	SSTI (n = 75)	non SSTI (n = 50)	P value
lukS/F-PV	19	15	4	0.112
sea	16	3	13	0.002
seb	19	16	3	0.042
sec	3	3	0	0.161
sed	5	2	3	0.372
see	1	1	0	0.415
seg	54	21	33	0.009
seh	1	0	1	0.223
sei	29	19	10	0.583
sej	6	3	3	0.626
tst	7	5	2	0.547
HLa	118	72	46	0.871
HLb	59	38	21	0.567
HLd	99	62	37	0.689
HLg	118	73	45	0.766

SSTI, skin and soft tissue infection; lukS/F-PV, gene encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin; sea-see and seg-sej, gene encoding staphylococcal enterotoxins; tst, gene encoding toxic shock syndrome toxin 1; HLa- HLg, gene encoding staphylococcal hemolysin. P-value and two-sided P-value were calculated by the chi-square or Fisher’s exact test appropriately

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