Streptococcus suis sequence type 7 outbreak, Sichuan, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1203-1208

  Ye, Changyun ^a,b   Zhu, Xiaoping ^c   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Du, Huamao ^a   Segura, Mariela ^d   Zheng, Han ^a   Kan, Biao ^a   Wang, Lili ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Zhou, Yongyun ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Zhang, Shouying ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Sun, Na ^a   Luo, Xia ^a   Zhang, Ji ^a   Gong, Zhaolong ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Sun, Hui ^a   Li, Zhenjun ^a   Sun, Qiangzheng ^a   Liu, Honglu ^e   Dong, Boqing ^f   Ke, Changwen ^f   Yuan, Hui ^g   Wang, Hua ^h   Tian, Kecheng ⁱ   Wang, Yu ^b   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^d   Xu, Jianguo ^a,b,j   more..

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control   (China)

^c Sichuan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Guangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^f GUANGZHOU CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^g Jiangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^h JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

ⁱ Guizhou Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^j CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33750601105     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1708.060232     Document Type: Article

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