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Development of an unambiguous and discriminatory multilocus sequence typing scheme for the Streptococcus zooepidemicus group.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Oct 2008
Webb Katy, Jolley Keith A, Mitchell Zoe, Robinson Carl, Newton J Richard, Maiden Martin C J, Waller Andrew
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The zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus (S. zooepidemicus) is commonly found harmlessly colonizing the equine nasopharynx. Occasionally, strains can invade host tissues or cross species barriers, and S. zooepidemicus is associated with numerous different diseases in a variety of hosts, including inflammatory airway disease and abortion in horses, pneumonia in dogs and meningitis in humans. A...
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