Table 4 Correlations between agr, sarA, and biofilm-associated genes, with biofilm production in 68 MSSA and 54 MRSA isolates investigated in this study
Genes | Biofilm production | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. MSSA isolates (n = 68) | p value | No. MRSA isolates (n = 54) | p value | |||||||
None | Weak | Moderate | Strong | None | Weak | Moderate | Strong | |||
agrI | 0 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 0.018* | 1 | 2 | 5 | 36 | 0.154 |
agrII | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.407 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 |
agrIII | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0.175 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0.090 |
agrIV | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
sarA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 0.530 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0.202 |
icaA | 1 | 4 | 7 | 56 | – | 2 | 3 | 8 | 41 | – |
icaD | 1 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 0.756 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 41 | – |
cna | 1 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 0.740 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 0.635 |
eno | 1 | 4 | 7 | 56 | – | 2 | 3 | 7 | 41 | 0.241 |
ebpS | 1 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 0.782 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0.006* |
fnbA | 1 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 0.304 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 0.307 |
fnbB | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
fib | 1 | 3 | 5 | 37 | 1.000 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0.267 |
clfA | 1 | 4 | 5 | 46 | 0.633 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 41 | – |
clfB | 1 | 4 | 6 | 50 | 1.000 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 41 | – |