Streptococcus pyogenes

Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Strep) strains are associated with a wide variety of clinical manifestations, including streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome, acute rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, and others.

Data Downloads

• BLAST server

• FTP site

The Sanger Institute has completed the sequencing of and published the 1.84 Mb genome of Streptococcus pyogenes strain Manfredo (M5), in collaboration with Prof. Mike Kehoe, of the School of Cell and Molecular Biosciences, University of Newcastle. The strain chosen for this project is associated with acute rheumatic fever, and was isolated from a patient in Chicago in the late 1950's.

Published Genome Data

The fully annotated genome has been deposited in the EMBL/GenBank databases with accession number AM295007.

Shotgun and assembly data from this project are available from our ftp site.

BSAC Resistance Surveillance Project

This data is from bacterial isolates collected in the BSAC Resistance Surveillance Project. Please see bsacsurv.org for details and availability.