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Table 1 Epidemiological features of the ICU infection rate, hospital infection rate, clinical multidrug-resistant A. baumannii isolate numbers and IntI1 -containing rate during the 2001 and 2004

From: Tracing the emergence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Taiwanese hospital by evaluating the presence of integron gene intI1

Year

Carrying-Int I1 rate

MDRAB isolates number

ICU infection rate

Hospital infection rate

2001

r

0.080

-0.235

-0.586

 

p-value

0.805

0.462

0.045

2002

r

0.055

-0.088

-0.228

 

p-value

0.864

0.785

0.476

2003

r

0.594

0.041

0.305

 

p-value

0.042

0.899

0.334

2004

r

-0.086

-0.172

-0.135

 

p-value

0.790

0.594

0.675

Overall

r

0.168

-0.107

-0.189

 

p-value

0.254

0.468

0.199

  1. Notes: r: Spearman’s Correlation Coefficient, MDRAB: Multi-drug resistant A. baumannii.