Slaughterhouse pigs are a major reservoir of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 capable of causing human infection in Southern Vietnam

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Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ngo, Thi Hoa ^a,d   Tran Chieu, Thi Bich ^a   Tran, Thi Thu ^a   Nguyen, Van Dung ^b   Campbell, James ^a   Pham, Hong Anh ^a   Huynh, Huu Tho ^b   Nguyen, Van Vinh Chau ^c   Bryant, Juliet E ^a,d   Tran, Tinh Hien ^c   Farrar, Jeremy ^a,d   Schultsz, Constance ^a,e  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^b Sub Department of Animal Health   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIET NAM; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79960679456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017943     Document Type: Article

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