Streptococcus Suis Outbreaks
Streptococcus suis outbreak caused by highly virulent sequence type 7 strain
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 3rd, 2006
"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," scientists in the People's Republic of China report.
According to the authors, "We defined 98 of 99 isolates as pulse type I by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis of Smal-digested chromosomal DNA....
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