FIG 2.

Heat map of known virulence-associated factors in A. baumannii. The amino acid sequences for genes previously identified as being associated with virulent phenotypes were obtained from the National Center for Biotechnology database (Table 3). LS-BSR analysis to detect if these genes were present in the newly sequenced A. baumannii isolates was performed using TBLASTN. The BSR values were generated as described previously. The heat map generated was visualized with phylogeny using Tree of Life v3.0 software.