Human Case of Streptococcus suis Disease, Ontario, Canada

We report a case of Streptococcus suis human disease in Ontario, Canada, caused by a serotype 2 strain genotypically similar to those commonly isolated from pigs in North America. Initially, the isolate was misidentified as a viridans group Streptococcus. Human S. suis infections may be underdiagnos...

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Autores principales: Gomez-Torres, Jeisa, Nimir, Asim, Cluett, James, Aggarwal, Anita, Elsayed, Sameer, Soares, Deirdre, Teatero, Sarah, Chen, Yan, Gottschalk, Marcelo, Fittipaldi, Nahuel
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29148386
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.171005
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author Gomez-Torres, Jeisa
Nimir, Asim
Cluett, James
Aggarwal, Anita
Elsayed, Sameer
Soares, Deirdre
Teatero, Sarah
Chen, Yan
Gottschalk, Marcelo
Fittipaldi, Nahuel
author_facet Gomez-Torres, Jeisa
Nimir, Asim
Cluett, James
Aggarwal, Anita
Elsayed, Sameer
Soares, Deirdre
Teatero, Sarah
Chen, Yan
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description We report a case of Streptococcus suis human disease in Ontario, Canada, caused by a serotype 2 strain genotypically similar to those commonly isolated from pigs in North America. Initially, the isolate was misidentified as a viridans group Streptococcus. Human S. suis infections may be underdiagnosed in North America.
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spelling pubmed-57082242017-12-09 Human Case of Streptococcus suis Disease, Ontario, Canada Gomez-Torres, Jeisa Nimir, Asim Cluett, James Aggarwal, Anita Elsayed, Sameer Soares, Deirdre Teatero, Sarah Chen, Yan Gottschalk, Marcelo Fittipaldi, Nahuel Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter We report a case of Streptococcus suis human disease in Ontario, Canada, caused by a serotype 2 strain genotypically similar to those commonly isolated from pigs in North America. Initially, the isolate was misidentified as a viridans group Streptococcus. Human S. suis infections may be underdiagnosed in North America. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5708224/ /pubmed/29148386 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2312.171005 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Nimir, Asim
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Teatero, Sarah
Chen, Yan
Gottschalk, Marcelo
Fittipaldi, Nahuel
Human Case of Streptococcus suis Disease, Ontario, Canada
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5708224/
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