Rapid Evolution of Virulence and Drug Resistance in the Emerging Zoonotic Pathogen Streptococcus suis

BACKGROUND: Streptococcus suis is a zoonotic pathogen that infects pigs and can occasionally cause serious infections in humans. S. suis infections occur sporadically in human Europe and North America, but a recent major outbreak has been described in China with high levels of mortality. The mechani...

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Autores principales: Holden, Matthew T. G., Hauser, Heidi, Sanders, Mandy, Ngo, Thi Hoa, Cherevach, Inna, Cronin, Ann, Goodhead, Ian, Mungall, Karen, Quail, Michael A., Price, Claire, Rabbinowitsch, Ester, Sharp, Sarah, Croucher, Nicholas J., Chieu, Tran Bich, Thi Hoang Mai, Nguyen, Diep, To Song, Chinh, Nguyen Tran, Kehoe, Michael, Leigh, James A., Ward, Philip N., Dowson, Christopher G., Whatmore, Adrian M., Chanter, Neil, Iversen, Pernille, Gottschalk, Marcelo, Slater, Josh D., Smith, Hilde E., Spratt, Brian G., Xu, Jianguo, Ye, Changyun, Bentley, Stephen, Barrell, Barclay G., Schultsz, Constance, Maskell, Duncan J., Parkhill, Julian
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006072

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