Human Streptococcus suis Outbreak, Sichuan, China

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Yu, Hongjie ; Jing, Huaiqi ; Chen, Zhihai ; Zheng, Han ; Zhu, Xiaoping ; Wang, Hua ; Wang, Shiwen ; Liu, Lunguang ; Zu, Rongqiang ; Luo, Longze ; Xiang, Nijuan ; Liu, Honglu ; Liu, Xuecheng ; Shu, Yuelong ; Lee, Shui Shan ; Chuang, Shuk Kwan ; Wang, Yu ; Xu, Jianguo ; Yang, Weizhong
• Corporate Authors:
  Streptococcus suis study groups
• Description:
  From mid-July to the end of August 2005, a total of 215 cases of human Streptococcus suis infections, 66 of which were laboratory confirmed, were reported in Sichuan, China. All infections occurred in backyard farmers who were directly exposed to infection during the slaughtering process of pigs that had died of unknown causes or been killed for food because they were ill. Sixty-one (28%) of the farmers had streptococcal toxic shock syndrome; 38 (62%) of them died. The other illnesses reported were sepsis (24%) and meningitis (48%) or both. All isolates tested positive for genes for tuf, species-specific 16S rRNA, cps2J, mrp, ef, and sly. A single strain of S. suis caused the outbreak, as shown by the identification of a single ribotype. The high death ratio was of concern; prohibiting backyard slaughtering ended the outbreak.
• Subjects:
  Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Animals Bacterial Proteins Disease Outbreaks DNA, Bacterial Female Humans Male Middle Aged Peptide Elongation Factor Tu Polymerase Chain Reaction Research Ribotyping RNA, Ribosomal, 16S Streptococcal Infections Streptococcus Suis Swine

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(6):914-920.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:96ff4ea106b3cec6567ba554b63f244fd6e4a3828871db60b006cb945361d212
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16091/cdc_16091_DS1.pdf
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