… were assigned to VGS species on the basis of their distance from species type strains (19).
For whole-genome sequencing of 9 Streptococcus mitis strains and 1 S. oralis strain, we …

… Streptococcus mitis strains encode competence operons homologous to that observed in S.
pneumoniae (Bensing et al., 2001a,b; Denapaite et al., 2010). Although the Com operon in S…

… pneumoniae sub-cluster was located within the Streptococcus mitis cluster, but the sodA …
to be detected in some strains of Streptococcus oralis including the type strain and S. mitis. We …

… of the type strains of Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus gordonii and calculated the …
members of the genus Streptococcus. The viridans group streptococci were separated into five …

… The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus mitis
group strains isolated from Romanian patients with different oral and maxillofacial infections…

… mitis is also recognized as an increasingly important cause of bacteremia in patients with
hematologic illnesses (3). Some but not all strains of S. mitis biovar 1 are characterized by …

… genomic analyses of oral species from the mitis group. It currently hosts 104 S. mitis group
genomes including 27 novel mitis group strains that we sequenced using the high throughput …

… 27 type and reference Streptococcus strains, representing 8 … and reference strain belonging
to the mitis group streptococci. Only … in this streptococcus mitis group strains. Some members …

… ], representing valuable material to elucidate the evolution of these genes in Streptococcus
spp. Also, some of the S. mitis strains used in the present study hybridized with ply and/or lytA …

… mitis, the situation would, in our opinion, create confusion. We propose strain NCTC
12261 as the valid type strain of S. mitis in agreement with the results described in the …