Invasive disease and toxic shock due to zoonotic Streptococcus suis: An emerging infection in the east?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 595-597

  Sriskandan, Shiranee ^a   Slater, Josh D ^b  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENICITY; ARTHRITIS; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LACERATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMONIA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; SWINE DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

SUPERANTIGEN;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUPERANTIGENS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33744459956     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030187     Document Type: Short Survey

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