Spread of Streptococcus suis sequence type 7, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 787-791

  Ye, Changyun ^a,b   Bai, Xuemei ^b   Zhang, Ji ^b   Jing, Huaiqi ^b   Zheng, Han ^a   Du, Huamao ^b   Cui, Zhigang ^b   Zhang, Shouying ^b   Jin, Dong ^a   Xu, Yanmei ^a   Xiong, Yanwen ^a   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Luo, Xia ^a   Sun, Qiangzheng ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^c   Xu, Jianguo ^a,b,d  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETM GENE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHINA; EPIDEMIC; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 45249108679     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1405.070437     Document Type: Article

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