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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fernandes GR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5660057 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in microbiology 20171023
<i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i>, also known as group A <i>Streptococcus</i> (GAS), is a human pathogen that causes diverse human diseases including streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). A GAS outbreak occurred in Brasilia, Brazil, during the second half of the year 2011, causing 26 deaths. Whole genome sequencing was performed using Illumina platform. The sequences were assembled and genes were predicted for comparative analysis with <i>emm</i> type 1 strains: MGAS5005 and M1 GAS. Genomics co ...[more]