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Table 7 Predicted presence (P) or absence (A) of certain virulence genes among 255 S. aureus isolates

From: Benchmarking of two bioinformatic workflows for the analysis of whole-genome sequenced Staphylococcus aureus collected from patients with suspected sepsis

Number of isolates and corresponding FASTQ files

Virulence gene of interest

Predicted genotype by 1928 platform and INH

Discordant across methods (n [%])

AAa

PPb

AP

PA

255

etA

251

2

0

2

2 [0.8]

255

etB

253

0

0

2

2 [0.8]

255

lukF-PVL

248

7

0

0

0 [0]

255

lukS-PVL

248

7

0

0

0 [0]

255

tsst1

215

36

0

4

4 [1.6]

Total

(% of 1275)

 

1215

(95.3)

52

(4.1)

0

(0.0)

8

(6.3)

8

(6.3)

  1. aA absence, bP presence