Fig. 4

The minimum spanning tree (MST) of 576 Iranian S. aureus strains was constructed by the goeBURST algorithm using the PHYLOViZ 2.0 software (https://www.phyloviz.net/). The allelic profiles were downloaded from the MLST website (https://pubmlst.org/saureus/) (105 STs) and previously described in the literature (443 STs), which included the sequence types (STs), clonal complexes (CCs) and singletons as well as 28 STs in this study. Each circle represents a unique ST. The size of each circle is proportional to the numbers of isolates per ST. The circles are color-coded according the CCs and singletons. The length between two nodes reflects the genetic distance between the two bordering STs. Similar CCs have color-coded in the legend