Draft Genome Sequence of a Potentially Novel Streptococcus Species Belonging to the Streptococcus mitis Group

Ingerid Ø Kirkeleite; Jon Bohlin; Lonneke Scheffer; Einar T Weme; Didrik F Vestrheim

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00620-18

Draft Genome Sequence of a Potentially Novel Streptococcus Species Belonging to the Streptococcus mitis Group

Genome Announc. 2018 Jun 28;6(26):e00620-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00620-18.

Authors

Ingerid Ø Kirkeleite¹, Jon Bohlin¹, Lonneke Scheffer², Einar T Weme³, Didrik F Vestrheim⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infection Control and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
² Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
³ Department of Medical Microbiology, Vestre Viken Hospital Trust, Drammen, Norway.
⁴ Division of Infection Control and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway didrik.frimann.vestrheim@fhi.no.

Abstract

We report here the draft genome sequence of a Streptococcus species belonging to the S. mitis group. While a clear species identification cannot be made for the isolate, it appears that its most recent common ancestor is the species S. pseudopneumoniae.