Occurrence, antibiotic susceptibility and genetic variation of Streptococcus zooepidemicus in Finnish weanling horses with and without respiratory infection.

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BACKGROUND: Streptococcus zooepidemicus subsp. zooepidemicus (S. zooepidemicus), an opportunistic pathogen often found in the stable environment and upper respiratory tract of young horses, can cause severe pneumonias in Equidae. In this study we investigated the occurrence, genetic variation and antimicrobial susceptibility of S. zooepidemicus isolates from 63 weanling horses kept in loose housing or...

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