Using the VFDB database, it was shown that circulating A. baumannii clones in Romanian intra-hospital infections from Bucharest and wastewater from two cities in southern Romania were associated with virulence factors encoding for adherence (ata, tufA), biofilm formation (algW, bap, csuA, csuB, csuC, csuD, csuE), effector delivery systems (tssA, B, C, D, E, F, G, K, L, M, tagX), exoenzymes (cpaA), immune modulation (cps4l, galE, galU, pseB, pseC, pseF, pseG, pseH, pseI, tviB, wbpD), and nutrition/metabolic factors (bauA, hemO) [34]. Here, ATM is linked to infection.