Differences in the population structure of invasive streptococcus suis strains isolated from pigs and from humans in the Netherlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Schultsz, Constance ^a,b,c   Jansen, Ewout ^c   Keijzers, Wendy ^c   Rothkamp, Anja ^d,f   Duim, Birgitta ^e   Wagenaar, Jaap A ^e   van der Ende, Arie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f Vaxxinova GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEROTYPING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; SWINE DISEASE; VIRULENCE;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84860435920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033854     Document Type: Article

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