ENTRY       T00515            Complete  Genome
ORG_CODE    ssv
NAME        Streptococcus suis 98HAH33 (serotype 2)
ANNOTATION  yes
TAXONOMY    TAX:391296
  LINEAGE   Bacteria; Bacillota; Bacilli; Lactobacillales; Streptococcaceae; Streptococcus
BRITE       KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
            KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
            KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
DATA_SOURCE GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000014325.1 Complete Genome)
            BioProject: 17155
KEYWORDS    Human pathogen, Animal pathogen
DISEASE     H00334  Bacterial endocarditis
            H01406  Streptococcus suis infection
COMMENT     Important zoonotic pathogen, causing more than 200 cases of severe human infection worldwide, with the hallmarks of meningitis, septicemia, arthritis, etc. 
            Recognized as an etiological agent for streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), which was originally associated with Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) in Streptococci.
            Isolated from a human in Haian County, Jiangsu Province, China, 1998.
CHROMOSOME  Circular
  SEQUENCE  GB:CP000408
  LENGTH    2095698
STATISTICS  Number of nucleotides:       2095698
            Number of protein genes:        2189
            Number of RNA genes:              68
CREATED     2007
REFERENCE   PMID:17375201
  AUTHORS   Chen C, Tang J, Dong W, Wang C, Feng Y, Wang J, Zheng F, Pan X, Liu D, Li M, et al.
  TITLE     A glimpse of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome from comparative genomics of S. suis 2 Chinese isolates.
  JOURNAL   PLoS One 2:e315 (2007)
            DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0000315
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