Streptococcus suis sequence type 7 outbreak, Sichuan, China.(RESEARCH)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: Bai, Xuemei; Cui, Zhigang; Dong, Boqing; Du, Huamao; Gong, Zhaolong; Gottschalk, Marcelo; Han, Zheng; Jin, Dong; Jing, Huaiqi; Kan, Biao; Ke, Changwen; Li, Zhenjun; Liu, Honglu; Luo, Xia; Segura, Mariela; Sun, Hui; Sun, Na; Sun, Qiangzheng; Tian, Kecheng; Wang, Hua; Wang, Lei; Wang, Lili; Wang, Xin; Wang, Yu; Xu, Jianguo; Ye, Changyun; Yuan, Hui; Zhang, Ji; Zhang, Shouying; Zhou, Yongyun; Zhu, Xiaoping | Copyright information

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 defined 98 of 99 isolates as pulse type I by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Smal-digested chromosomal DNA. Furthermore, multilocus sequence typing classified 97 of 98 m...

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