Streptococcus suis: A new emerging or an old neglected zoonotic pathogen?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-391

  Gottschalk, Marcelo ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^b   Calzas, Cynthia ^a   Segura, Mariela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Emerging disease; Highly virulent strains; Meningitis; Occupational disease; Septic shock; Streptococcus suis; Toxic shock like syndrome; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; EPIDEMIC; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; ZOONOSES;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 77949393600     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.2     Document Type: Review

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