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Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Fittipaldi, Nahuel ; Xu, Jiangu ; Lacouture, Sonia ; Tharavichitkul, Prasit ; Osaki, Makoto ; ... More +
Fittipaldi, Nahuel ; Xu, Jiangu ; Lacouture, Sonia ; Tharavichitkul, Prasit ; Osaki, Makoto ; Sekizaki, Tsutomu ; Takamatsu, Daisuke ; Gottschalk, Marcelo Less -
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We performed multilocus sequence typing of 64 North American Streptococcus suis serotype 2 porcine isolates. Strains were sequence type (ST) 28 (51%), ST25 (44%), and ST1 (5%). We identified nonrandom associations between STs and expression of the virulence markers suilysin (SLY), muramidase-relased protein (MRP), and extracellular factor (EF). Expression of pili encoded by the srtF and srtG pilus clusters was also nonrandomly associated with STs. ST1 strains were SLY+ EF+ MRP+ srtF pilus+ srtG pilus-. ST25 strains were SLY- EF- MRP- srtF pilus- srtG pilus+, and most ST28 strains were SLY- MRP+ EF- srtF pilus+ srtG pilus+. ST28 isolates proved essentially nonvirulent in a mouse infection model; ST25 strains showed moderate virulence and ST1 isolates were highly virulent. ST1 is responsible for a high proportion of S. suis disease in humans worldwide. Its presence in North America indicates that potential zoonotic S. suis outbreaks in this continent cannot be disregarded.
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Animals
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Female
Fimbriae, Bacterial
Genes, Bacterial
Genotype
Humans
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Serotyping
Streptococcal Infections
Sus Scrofa
Swine
Swine Diseases
Virulence
Zoonoses

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 17(12):2239-2244.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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