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Lineage and virulence of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 isolates from North America.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2011
Fittipaldi Nahuel, Xu Jiangu, Lacouture Sonia, Tharavichitkul Prasit, Osaki Makoto, Sekizaki Tsutomu, Takamatsu Daisuke, Gottschalk Marcelo
Abstract excerpt
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...
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