Table 2 Hospital ward origin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates.

From: High frequency of the exoU+/exoS+ genotype associated with multidrug-resistant “high-risk clones” of Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates from Peruvian hospitals

Ward

n = 189

exoU+/exoS+

exoU−/exoS+

ICU

18

9 (50.0%)b

9 (50.0%)

Burnsa

8

6 (75.0%)c

2 (25.0)

External

28

9 (32.1%)

19 (67.9%)

Other

82

13 (15.9%)

69 (84.1%)

ND

53

6 (12.8%)

47 (87.2)

  1. ICU: Intensive Care Units; Externa: Samples belonging to hospital outpatients; ND: Isolates from which no specific hospital ward data was recorded, thus these isolates have not been included in the statiscal analysis; Other: All remaining hospitalisation wards.
  2. aAll burn patients were from Hospital Arzobispo Loayza.
  3. bSignificant number of exoU+ isolates (p = 0.0197).
  4. cSignificant number of exoU+ isolates (p = 0.0017).
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