Several genes implicated in cell division were down-regulated in S. aureus samples compared to clean injury samples, such as mitotic spindle and nuclear protein (mink, -2.4 fold change) [119], stathmin (stai, -3.8 fold change) [120] and cyclin B (cycB, -2.2 fold change) [121] suggesting a cell cycle arrest in response to infection with this Gram-positive bacterium (S7 File) [122]. Here, STMN1 is linked to infection.