Staphylococcal Enterotoxins and Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin-1 and Their Association among Bacteremic and Infective Endocarditis Patients in Egypt

Table 4

Distribution of SAg genes among Staphylococci.

Genes	No. (%) of Staphylococcal isolates harbored SAg genes ()
Detection of gene(s)	Positive: 19 (73%)	IE patients 14 (73.7%); bacteremic patients without IE, 5 (26.3%)
	Negative: 7 (27%)
One SAg	8 (42%)	value = 0.491
≥2 SAg	11 (57.9%)
Types of genes detected
Sea	15 (79%)	value = 0.001
Seb	12 (63%)
Sec	0 (0%)
Sed	1 (5.3%)
See	0 (0%)
tsst-1	4 (21%)