Fig. 1.

Phylogenetic representation of the sequenced strains during our study and the complete GAS genomes publicly available on NCBI. The phylogenetic tree was made using Parsnp and is based on the core genome alignment of our 11 isolates (in red), the currently 51 complete genomes available on NCBI (Table S1) and seven other genomes of S. pyogenes recently sequenced in our institute (from CV1 to CV7, taking part in another study). The tree was rooted at midpoint. Stars indicate bootstraps below 0.9