Streptococcus suis Sequence Type 7 Outbreak, Sichuan, China

Streptococcus suis Sequence Type 7 Outbreak, Sichuan, China

An outbreak of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 emerged in the summer of 2005 in Sichuan Province, and sporadic infections occurred in 4 additional provinces of China. In total, 99 S. suis strains were isolated and analyzed in this study: 88 isolates from human patients and 11 from diseased pigs. We de...

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Main Authors: Changyun Ye, Xiaoping Zhu, Huaiqi Jing, Huamao Du, Mariela Segura, Han Zheng, Biao Kan, Lili Wang, Xuemei Bai, Yongyun Zhou, Zhigang Cui, Shouying Zhang, Dong Jin, Na Sun, Xia Luo, Ji Zhang, Zhaolong Gong, Xin Wang, Lei Wang, Hui Sun, Zhenjun Li, Qiangzheng Sun, Honglu Liu, Boqing Dong, Changwen Ke, Hui Yuan, Hua Wang, Kecheng Tian, Yu Wang, Marcelo Gottschalk, Jianguo Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-08-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Streptococcus suis
multilocus sequence typing(MLST)
pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
meningitis
streptococcal toxic shocklike syndrome (STSS)
China
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/8/06-0232_article

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