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Characterization of DNase activity and gene in Streptococcus suis and evidence for a role as virulence factor.
BMC research notes - 4 Jul 2014
Haas Bruno, Bonifait Laetitia, Vaillancourt Katy, Charette Steve J, Gottschalk Marcelo, Grenier Daniel
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important swine pathogen and emerging zoonotic agent. Multilocus sequence typing allowed dividing S. suis serotype 2 into sequence types (STs). The three major STs of S. suis serotype 2 from North America are 1 (most virulent), 25 (intermediate virulence) and 28 (less virulent). Although the presence of DNase activity in S. suis has been...
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