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Streptococcus pyogenes genome exposed

Tudor Toma

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Genome Biology 2001, 2:spotlight-20010419-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20010419-01

Published: 19 April 2001

The genome of Streptococcus pyogenes contains 1,752 predicted protein-encoding genes, more than 40 of them identified as putative virulence-associated genes.