Streptococcus

Genomes for beneficial relative of pathogenic strep bacteria sequenced

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 30th, 2004

An international consortium of researchers has sequenced the genomes of two strains of the beneficial lactic acid bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus. The organism is widely used in cheese and yogurt production and therefore of great interest to food and dairy manufacturers.

It is also a close relative of pathogenic bacteria that cause illnesses ranging from strep throats to more severe cases of meningitis and septic shock.

In the December 2004 issue of Nature Biotechnology, Dusko Ehrlich and his colleagues at the Institut National de al Recherche Agronomique, France, reported the complete sequences of the two genomes and analyzed the...

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