Research Article

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

Table 5

Descriptive statistics, results of Fisher’s exact test and Mann-Whitney test for comparison between ELISA results and detected genes among bacteremic and IE isolates.

OutcomeIE ()Bacteremia () valueEffect size

ELISA (median (range))1.92 (0-2.59)0 (0-2.05)0.085
Detected genes ( (%))
 Sea10 (66.7%)5 (45.5%)0.426
 Seb8 (53.3%)4 (36.4%)0.453
 Sed0 (0%)1 (9.1%)0.423
 tsst14 (26.7%)0 (0%)0.113
Total number of genes (median (range))2 (0-2)1 (0-3)0.139

Significant at .