IntroductionCitrobacter spp. accounts for 3-6% of all isolates from the Enterobacteriaceae family, which causes nosocomial infections (Doran, 1999; Borenshtein and Schauer, 2006; Maraki et al. , 2017; Rostamzad et al...
Figure 1 Phylogenetic analysis of 19 Citrobacter spp. The branches display the percentage of trees where related groups of species clustered together. The evolutionary tree was constructed using the Maximum Likelihood technique in the MEGA X software (Kumar et al...
Figure 2 Heat map of the 118 virulence proteins across 18 different Citrobacter spp. studied. Dark brown squares denote the presence of the genes, and grey squares denote the absence of the genes listed...