Project name: Streptococcus pneumoniae SP3-BS71

Description: Streptococcus pneumoniae SP3-BS71. This serotype 3 strain is a low-passage isolate from the nasopharynx of a child who came down with pneumonia after participating in a Fluzone® vaccine trial at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (Shen et al., 2006, Infect. Immun. 74:321-330).Sequenced and assembled using technology developed by 454 Life Sciences, Inc. supplemented with double-barreled Sanger dideoxy sequencing read data from traditional clone libraries.

Data type: Genome sequencing and assembly

Sample scope: Monoisolate

Release date: 2007-05-22

Last updated: 2006-10-13