Diversity, in-vitro virulence traits and antifungal susceptibility pattern of gastrointestinal yeast flora of healthy poultry, Gallus gallus domesticus

Table 2 Spearman’s correlation coefficient for in-vitro virulence factor measurements of yeast isolate

Assay Parameters		DNAse (Pz)	Biofilm (OD)	CSH (%)	SOD (mMol)	Proteniase (Pz)	Phospholipase (Pz)	Esterase (Pz)
DNAse (Pz)	Spearman’s Correlation	1	0.133	0.158	0.035	−0.054	0.240	0.188
DNAse (Pz)	P value	--	0.216	0.141	0.749	0.615	0.024	0.079
Biofilm (OD)	Spearman’s Correlation	0.133	1	−0.008	−0.023	0.140	0.126	0.002
Biofilm (OD)	P value	0.216	--	0.941	0.835	0.195	0.243	0.983
CSH (%)	Spearman’s Correlation	0.158	−0.008	1	−0.029	0.020	0.059	0.237^a
CSH (%)	P value	0.141	0.941	--	0.787	0.850	0.586	0.026
SOD (mMol)	Spearman’s Correlation	0.035	−0.023	−0.029	1	−0.187	−0.092	0.101
SOD (mMol)	P value	0.749	0.835	0.787	--	0.080	0.396	0.351
Proteinase (Pz)	Spearman’s Correlation	−0.054	0.140	0.020	−0.187	1	0.407^b	0.127
Proteinase (Pz)	P value	0.615	0.195	0.850	0.080	--	0.000	0.237
Phospholipase (Pz)	Spearman’s Correlation	0.240^a	0.126	0.059	−0.092	0.407^b	1	0.095
Phospholipase (Pz)	P value	0.024	0.243	0.586	0.396	0.000	--	0.381
Esterase (Pz)	Spearman’s Correlation	0.188	0.002	0.237	0.101	0.127	0.095	1
Esterase (Pz)	P value	0.079	0.983	0.026	0.351	0.237	0.381	--

^aCorrelation is significant at the 0.05 level; ^bCorrelation is significant at the 0.01 level

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