Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain JMUB1235 Isolated from an Acute Phlegmonous Gastritis Patient

Shinya Watanabe; Teppei Sasahara; Naoshi Arai; Kazumasa Sasaki; Yoshifumi Aiba; Yusuke Sato'o; Longzhu Cui

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01133-16

Complete Genome Sequence of Streptococcus pyogenes Strain JMUB1235 Isolated from an Acute Phlegmonous Gastritis Patient

Genome Announc. 2016 Oct 20;4(5):e01133-16. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01133-16.

Authors

Shinya Watanabe¹, Teppei Sasahara¹, Naoshi Arai², Kazumasa Sasaki³, Yoshifumi Aiba¹, Yusuke Sato'o¹, Longzhu Cui⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
² Division of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
³ Division of Microbiology Laboratory, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
⁴ Division of Bacteriology, Department of Infection and Immunity, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Yakushiji, Shimotsuke-shi, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan longzhu@jichi.ac.jp.

Abstract

Acute phlegmonous gastritis is an uncommon endogenous bacterial gastritis presenting with a high mortality rate. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of an emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes strain, JMUB1235, which is the causative agent of acute phlegmonous gastritis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI grant no. 15H05654 (to S.W.), the Takeda Science Foundation (to S.W.), and GSK Japan Research Grant 2015. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.