| Species: | Streptococcus pyogenes (serotype M18)
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| Species code: | STRP8
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| Type: | Eubacteria
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| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Firmicutes; Lactobacillales; Streptococcaceae; Streptococcus (TaxID: 186103)
[NEWT /
NCBI]
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| Strain(s): | MGAS8232 / Serotype M18
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| Genome: | circular, 1.89 Mb; no ECE
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| Reference(s): |
MEDLINE=21927593
[NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=11917108;
Smoot J.C., Barbian K.D., Van Gompel J.J., Smoot L.M., Chaussee M.S.,
Sylva G.L., Sturdevant D.E., Ricklefs S.M., Porcella S.F.,
Parkins L.D., Beres S.B., Campbell D.S., Smith T.M., Zhang Q.,
Kapur V., Daly J.A., Veasy L.G., Musser J.M.;
"Genome sequence and comparative microarray analysis of serotype M18
group A Streptococcus strains associated with acute rheumatic fever
outbreaks.";
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99:4668-4673(2002).
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| Other WWW site(s): |
GIB (DDBJ)
TIGR CMR
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| Description: | Gram-positive, nonmotile, nonsporeforming coccus that occurs in
chains or in pairs of cells. Individual cells are round-to-ovoid
cocci, 0.6-1.0 micrometer in diameter. It is a catalase-negative
aerotolerant anaerobe (facultative anaerobe). It requires enriched
medium containing blood in order to grow. It has a capsule composed
of hyaluronic acid. Its genome has low G+C content.
Strict human pathogen responsible for a wide variety of diseases,
including pharyngitis, scarlet fever, impetigo, septicemia, toxic
shock syndrome, flesh-eating disease, rheumatic fever and acute
glomerulonephritis.
Strain MGAS8232 is a serotype M18 organism isolated from a patient
with acute rheumatic fever.
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| Properties: | Number of membranes : 1
Presence of a flagella : No
Number of inteins : 0
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