Streptococcus suis, an important pig pathogen and emerging zoonotic agent-an update on the worldwide distribution based on serotyping and sequence typing

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Goyette Desjardins, Guillaume ^a   Auger, Jean Philippe ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^b   Segura, Mariela ^a   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Pig pathogen; Sequence types; Serotypes; Streptococcus suis; Zoonotic agent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS INFECTION; SWINE; ZOONOSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; PATHOGENESIS; PIG; REVIEW; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; SUIDAE;

EID: 84902191275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2014.45     Document Type: Article

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