Virulence factors involved in the pathogenesis of the infection caused by the swine pathogen and zoonotic agent Streptococcus suis

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 259-279

  Fittipaldi, Nahuel ^a   Segura, Mariela ^a   Grenier, Daniel ^b   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

infections of swine; meningitis; septicemia; Streptococcus suis; virulence factors; zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ADENYLOSUCCINATE SYNTHASE; ADHESIN; ARACHIDONIC ACID; COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; ENOLASE; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEMAGGLUTININ; HEMOLYSIN; HYALURONIC ACID; IRON; LIPOPROTEIN; LYSOZYME; MANGANESE; NUCLEASE; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORIBOSYLAMINE GLYCINE LIGASE; PHOSPHORYLASE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEINASE; SIALIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BLOOD; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MENINGITIS; MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SURVIVAL; SWINE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84856891595     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.149     Document Type: Review

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