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Table 7 Correlation between virulence genes and patients gender and age groups

From: Virulence genes distributed among Staphylococcus aureus causing wound infections and their correlation to antibiotic resistance

 

hla

P*

sea

P*

fnb

P*

icaA

P*

 + 

−

 + 

−

 + 

−

 + 

−

Gender

            

Male

16

20

0.770

29

7

0.125

6

30

0.766

20

16

0.311

Female

6

9

 

9

6

 

2

13

 

6

9

 

Age group

            

1 to 20

10

1

0.002

20

3

0.006

5

18

0.489

16

7

0.041

21 to 40

6

8

 

12

2

 

2

12

 

6

8

 

41 to 60

6

8

 

6

8

 

1

13

 

4

10

 
  1. The bold values indicate a statisticatly significant difference. The alpha level of siginificance was set to 0.05
  2. *Chi-square test; P-value was set to 0.05
  3. Gene present ( +); gene absent (−)