Research Article

Genomic Landscape Reveals Chromosomally-Mediated Antimicrobial Resistome and Virulome of a High-Risk International Clone II Acinetobacter baumannii AB073 from Thailand

Table 2

Computational identification of genes encoding for virulence factors of AB073.

Virulence factorsPotential virulence classesRelated virulence genes and operons

AcinetobactinIron uptakebarAB, basABCDFGHIJ, bauABCDEF, and entE
Heme utilizationIron uptakehemO
AdeFGH efflux pumpBiofilm formationadeFGH
Biofilm-associated proteinBiofilm formationBap
Csu piliBiofilm formationcsuABCDE
PNAGBiofilm formationpgaABCD
LPSImmune invasionlpsB and lpxABCDLM
Phospholipase C and DEnzyme productionplc1, plc2, and plcD
Outer membrane proteinAdherenceompA
Quorum sensingRegulationabaIR
Two-component systemRegulationbfmRS
pbpGSerum resistancepbpG

PNAG, polysaccharide poly-N-acetylglucosamine.