Lineage and virulence of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 isolates from North America

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2239-2244

  Fittipaldi, Nahuel ^a   Xu, Jiangu ^b   Lacouture, Sonia ^a   Tharavichitkul, Prasit ^c   Osaki, Makoto ^d   Sekizaki, Tsutomu ^e   Takamatsu, Daisuke ^f   Gottschalk, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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

^c CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries Research Council   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EYE SWELLING; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; MRP GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS SEROTYPE 2; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84930483646     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.110609     Document Type: Article

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