Fig. 2: Virulence determinants of S. argenteus.

A Comparison of the total number of virulence genes per genome in ST2250 versus non-ST2250. Mean values are 63.90 vs 59.23. Comparison of the total number of virulence genes of specific class B adherence [mean values are 5.0 vs 4.5], C biofilm [mean values are 5.0 vs 5.0], D modulation [mean values are 18.78 vs 18.34], E exoenzyme [mean values are 6.78 vs 6.42], F exotoxin [mean values are 12.50 vs 12.09], and G effector delivery system [mean values are 6.0 vs 9.0]. For all panels, red and gray dots represent individual genomes of ST2250 and non-ST2250, respectively. The median is represented by the large blue dot, the box represents the interquartile range, the horizontal line in the middle of the box represents the median, and the lower and upper ends of the violin jitter plots represent the lowest data point without the outliers and the highest data point without outliers, respectively. Median was used as the central measure due to the non-normality of the data. Mann–Whitney test was used for all comparisons. Detailed information about the presence and absence of virulence genes in each genome is presented in Supplementary Data 3 and the list of virulence genes in each functional category in Supplementary Data 4.