Phylogenicity and Virulence Profiles of Clinical Escherichia coli Isolates in the Ho Teaching Hospital of Ghana

Table 3

Relationship between sociodemographic characteristics of study participants and the phylogenetic groups of E. coli.

Phylogroups	Total	A ()	P value	B1 ()	value	B2 ()	value	C ()	value	Clade 1 ()	value	D ()	value
Sex
Male	24	16 (66.7)	0.311	0 (0.0)	1.000	5 (20.8)	0.353	1 (4.2)	0.547	1 (4.2)	0.325	1 (4.2)	1.000
Female	111	85 (76.6)		3 (0.3)		15 (13.5)		3 (2.7)		1 (0.9)		4 (3.6)
Age
<10	11	7 (63.3)	0.058	2 (18.2)	0.017	1 (9.1)	0.064	0 (0.0)	0.154	1 (9.1)	0.386	0 (0.0)	0.007
10–19	2	0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		1 (50)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		1 (50)
20–29	26	17 (65.4)		1 (3.9)		7 (26.9)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		1 (3.9)
30–39	32	29 (90.6)		0 (0.0)		2 (6.25)		0 (0.0)		1 (3.1)		0 (0.0)
40–49	19	14 (73.7)		0 (0.0)		5 (26.3)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
50–59	16	12 (75.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		2 (12.5)		0 (0.0)		2 (12.5)
≥60	29	22 (75.9)		0 (0.0)		4 (14.0)		2 (7.0)		0 (0.0)		1 (3.5)
Religion
Christian	128	95 (74.2)	0.307	3 (2.3)	0.920	19 (14.8)	0.243	4 (3.1)	0.893	2 (1.6)	0.946	5 (3.9)	0.868
Islam	2	1 (50.0)		0 (0.0)		1 (50.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
None	5	5 (100.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Marital status
Single	46	29 (63.0)	0.104	2 (4.4)	0.687	8 (17.4)	0.770	3 (6.5)	0.377	1 (2.2)	0.965	3 (6.5)	0.653
Married	84	67 (79.8)		1 (1.2)		12 (14.3)		1 (1.2)		1 (1.2)		2 (2.4)
Cohabiting	3	3 (100.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Widowed	2	2 (100.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)		0 (0.0)
Occupation
Unemployed	53	39 (73.6)	0.773	3 (5.7)	0.093	6 (11.3)	0.251	3 (5.7)	0.285	1 (1.9)	0.945	1 (1.9)	0.096
Formal	34	27 (79.4)		0 (0.0)		8 (23.5)		0 (0.0)		1 (2.9)		0 (0.0)
Informal	48	35 (72.9)		0 (0.0)		6 (1.3)		1 (2.1)		1 (2.1)		4 (4.3)
Specimen
Nonurine	37	25 (67.6)	0.269	1 (2.7)	1.000	8 (21.6)	0.183	1 (2.7)	1.000	1 (2.7)	0.475	0 (0.0)	0.322
Urine	98	76 (77.6)		2 (2.0)		12 (12.5)		3 (3.1)		1 (1.0)		5 (5.1)
Patient status
Outpatient	98	74 (75.5)	0.825	3 (3.1)	0.561	16 (16.3)	0.589	1 (1.0)	0.068	2 (2.0)	1.000	2 (2.0)	0.126
Inpatient	37	27 (73.0)		0 (0.0)		4 (14.2)		3 (8.1)		0 (0.0)		3 (8.1)