Clinical Specimens are the Pool of Multidrug- resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Harbouring oprL and toxA Virulence Genes: Findings from a Tertiary Hospital of Nepal

Table 2

Clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of patients and distribution of MDR P. aeruginosa.

Attributes		P. aeruginosa isolates, n (%)	MDR, n (%)	value
Gender	Male	56 (64.36)	23 (41.07)	0.512
	Female	31 (35.63)	15 (48.39)
Age group (years)	1–19	6 (6.89)	3 (50.00)	0.23
	20–39	16 (18.39)	4 (25.00)
	40–59	24 (27.58)	14 (58.33)
	60–79	36 (41.37)	16 (44.44)
	>79	5 (5.47)	1 (20.00)
Status of patients	Inpatients	24 (27.58)	11 (45.83)	0.803
	Outpatients	63 (72.41)	27 (42.86)
Sample types	Urine	40 (45.98)	24 (60.00)	0.063
	Sputum	24 (27.59)	8 (33.33)
	Pus	13 (19.54)	4 (30.77)
	Body fluids	8 (9.20)	2 (25.00)
	Blood	2 (2.30)	0

The significant association is represented by (significant), while refers insignificance.