Table 5 Occurrence of papC, iSS, and vgrG1 virulence genes among Escherichia coli isolates.

From: Public health threat of antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes in Escherichia coli from human-chicken transmission in Egypt

Virulence genes

Chicken isolates (n = 18)

Human isolates (n = 11)

Total (n = 29)

Chi-square (Xآ²)

papC

9 (50%)

6 (54.5%)

15 (51.7%)

0.0565

iSS

10 (55.5%)

7 (63.6%)

17 (58.6%)

0.1838

vgrG1

7 (38.8%)

4 (36.3%)

11 (37.9%)

0.0185

  1. The result is not significant at p > 0.05.
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