ECOR groups among the 144 cellulitis isolates (within parentheses, number of strains) and respective mean and standard deviation for antimicrobial resistance, number of VAGs, lethality scores and pathogenicity scores.

1Mean number of antimicrobials to which strains were resistant, excluding tetracycline and sulphonamides.2APEC VAGs: papC, tsh, irp2, iucD, cva/cvi, iss, astA and vat.3One-way Kruskal-Wallis.4One-way ANOVA; means indicated by the same letter did not differ using the SNK test (0.05 level).5One-way ANOVA.6One-way Kruskal-Wallis; means indicated by the same letter did not differ using the Kruskal-Wallis adjusted for multiple comparisons (0.05 level).