ENTRY       T02062            Complete  Genome
ORG_CODE    stx
NAME        Streptococcus pyogenes MGAS1882 (serotype M59)
ANNOTATION  yes
TAXONOMY    TAX:1010840
  LINEAGE   Bacteria; Bacillati; 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_000250925.1 Complete Genome)
            BioProject: 66081
KEYWORDS    Human pathogen
DISEASE     H00333  Streptococcal infection
            H01455  Necrotizing fasciitis
COMMENT     Group A Streptococcus (GAS).
CHROMOSOME  Circular
  SEQUENCE  GB:CP003121
  LENGTH    1781029
STATISTICS  Number of nucleotides:       1781029
            Number of protein genes:        1691
            Number of RNA genes:              74
CREATED     2012
REFERENCE   PMID:22330677
  AUTHORS   Fittipaldi N, Beres SB, Olsen RJ, Kapur V, Shea PR, Watkins ME, Cantu CC, Laucirica DR, Jenkins L, Flores AR, et al.
  TITLE     Full-genome dissection of an epidemic of severe invasive disease caused by a hypervirulent, recently emerged clone of group A Streptococcus.
  JOURNAL   Am J Pathol 180:1522-34 (2012)
            DOI:10.1016/j.ajpath.2011.12.037
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