Complete Genome Sequence of Hypervirulent Streptococcus pyogenes emm 3 Strain 1838

Benfang Lei; Anthony R Flores; Carl Yeoman; Mengyao Liu

doi:10.1128/MRA.01494-18

Complete Genome Sequence of Hypervirulent Streptococcus pyogenes emm 3 Strain 1838

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jan 10;8(2):e01494-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01494-18. eCollection 2019 Jan.

Authors

Benfang Lei¹, Anthony R Flores², Carl Yeoman³, Mengyao Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Genomics, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA.
³ Department of Animal & Range Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.

Abstract

We report the complete genome sequence for Streptococcus pyogenes strain 1838 (type emm3) isolated from a patient with toxic shock syndrome. The strain lacked the speK- and sla-encoding prophage frequently encountered among emm3 strains and possessed an Arg66His mutation in CovR of the 2-component virulence regulatory system CovRS.

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