bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/468462; this version posted November 12, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Comparative genomic analysis of the emerging pathogen Streptococcus 2 pseudopneumoniae: novel insights into virulence determinants and 3 identification of a novel species-specific molecular marker 4 5 Geneviève Garriss1†, Priyanka Nannapaneni1†, Alexandra S. Simões2, Sarah Browall1, Raquel Sá- 6 Leão2, 3, Herman Goossens4, Herminia de Lencastre2, 5, Birgitta Henriques-Normark 1, 6, 7 7 8 9 10 1Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 11 Stockholm, Sweden 12 2Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Antonio Xavier, 13 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal 14 3Department of Plant Biology, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. 15 4Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), 16 University of Antwerp, Antwerp Belgium 17 5Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 18 USA 19 6Public Health Agency Sweden, SE-171 82 Solna, Sweden 20 7Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University 21 Hospital, Solna, Sweden. 22 23 †These authors contributed equally. 24 25 Corresponding author: Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Professor, MD, Karolinska University hospital 26 and Karolinska Institutet, MTC, Nobels väg 16, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, 27 Email:
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