*4.6. Potential Virulence Markers*

The comprehensive antibiotic resistance database (CARD/RGI-2017) [111] and Resfinder 3.2 [112] were used to identify antimicrobial resistance genes with default parameters and identification threshold of 60% identity over a length of 60% coverage, respectively. Virulence genes were predicted using VirulenceFinder [113], with a threshold of 85% identity over a length of 60%.
