Whole-Genome Sequence of Streptococcus tigurinus Strain osk_001, Isolated from Postmortem Material

Hidenori Yoshizawa; Daisuke Motooka; Ryuichi Katada; Yuki Matsumoto; Shota Nakamura; Eiichi Morii; Tetsuya Iida; Hiroshi Matsumoto

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00878-17

Whole-Genome Sequence of Streptococcus tigurinus Strain osk_001, Isolated from Postmortem Material

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 31;5(35):e00878-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00878-17.

Authors

Hidenori Yoshizawa^{1

2

3

4}, Daisuke Motooka⁵, Ryuichi Katada^{1

3}, Yuki Matsumoto⁵, Shota Nakamura⁵, Eiichi Morii⁴, Tetsuya Iida⁵, Hiroshi Matsumoto^{6

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
² Project for Death Control and Prevention, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
³ Osaka Prefectural Medical Examiner's Office, Osaka, Japan.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
⁵ Department of Infection Metagenomics, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
⁶ Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan hmatsumo@legal.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.

Abstract

Streptococcus tigurinus was recently described as a novel species, and some strains are highly virulent. We detected S. tigurinus in infected tissue sampled by necropsy. In order to characterize and confirm the virulence of this species, whole-genome sequencing of the pure cultured bacterium was performed. We found that the strain has specific and unique genetic elements contained in highly virulent strains of S. tigurinus.