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Virulence Mechanisms of Streptococcus suis

1997
Streptococcus suis is a common and widespread swine pathogen which also infects other species including man, causing cases of septicaemia, bronchopneumonia, arthritis and meningitis. Capsular type 2 is the most significant cause of disease in the U.K. and both virulent and avirulent strains have been isolated.
P M, Norton, J A, Leigh
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Streptococcus suis Meningitis, a Poacher's Risk

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infections Diseases, 2000
Streptococcus suis infection is a zoonosis that has been mainly reported in pig-rearing and pork-consuming countries. The most common disease manifestation is meningitis, often associated with cochleovestibular signs. The causative agent is Streptococcus suis serotype 2, found as a commensal in the tonsils of its natural host, the pig.
Halaby, T., Hoitsma, E., Hupperts, R., Spanjaard, L., Luirink, M., Jacobs, J.   +5 more
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Mutagenesis of Streptococcus equi and Streptococcus suis by transposon Tn917

Veterinary Microbiology, 2003
Genetic tools for studying streptococci are much less sophisticated than those that are available for many other bacterial genera. In this paper, we describe the development of a transposon mutagenesis system that we have used to mutate two important veterinary streptococci, Streptococcus equi and Streptococcus suis.
J D, Slater, A G, Allen, J P, May, S, Bolitho, H, Lindsay, D J, Maskell   +5 more
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Antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus suis isolates

British Veterinary Journal, 1994
The antimicrobial activities of penicillin (PEN), ampicillin (AMP), cephalothin (CT), trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (TMP-SMX), streptomycin (STM), and gentamicin (GM) against 122 representative strains of Streptococcus suis, were compared by the agar dilution procedure.
P L, Turgeon, R, Higgins, M, Gottschalk, M, Beaudoin   +3 more
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Streptococcus suis Meningitis

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1992
Meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis type 2, a rare disease first recognized in 1968 (108 cases worldwide in 1989), is contracted by occupational exposure to pigs and often results in very severe disabilities (definitive deafness and ataxia in 50% of cases). We report the case of an employee in a rendering plant whose initial symptom was deafness. A
D, Dupas, M, Vignon, C, Géraut
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Meningitis Caused by Streptococcus suis in Humans

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1988
Between 1968 and 1984, 30 strains of Streptococcus suis causing meningitis were isolated in the Netherlands. Twenty-eight strains were type 2, one was type 4, and one was untypable. The average age of the patients infected with these strains was 49 years (range, 21-76 years); the male-to-female ratio was 6.5. Twenty-five patients (83%) were employed in
J P, Arends, H C, Zanen
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Streptococcus suis meningitis.

2013
Abstract This chapter first reviews the epidemiology of Streptococcus suis infections in humans and pigs, then describes the pathogenesis and clinical course of S. suis meningitis in humans, the role of bacteraemia in S. suis invasion of the central nervous system, and the inflammatory processes involved in S. suis meningitis.
M. Gottschalk, N. Fittipaldi, M. Segura
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Human meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis

Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2013
Streptococcus suis is an important swine pathogen worldwide, which can be transmitted to human beings by direct contact; therefore, S. suis infections occur mainly in people who handle pigs or pork. We present a case of a patient with S. suis meningitis who worked as a butcher in a meat processing plant for 5 years.
Patrycja, Zalas-Więcek, Anna, Michalska, Edyta, Grąbczewska, Anita, Olczak, Małgorzata, Pawłowska, Eugenia, Gospodarek   +5 more
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SsPep contributes to the virulence of Streptococcus suis

Microbial Pathogenesis, 2011
Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (SS2) is a zoonotic pathogen responsible for a spectrum of disease in pigs and that can be transmitted to humans with fatal consequences. Despite the socioeconomic importance of this infection, the pathogenesis of SS2 is poorly understood. The protein SsPep (05SSU0153) has been characterized as an extracellular protein.
Chen, Tan, Manli, Liu, Jinquan, Li, Meilin, Jin, Weicheng, Bei, Huanchun, Chen   +5 more
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[Enolase of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is involved in the antiphagocytosis of Streptococcus suis].

Xi bao yu fen zi mian yi xue za zhi = Chinese journal of cellular and molecular immunology, 2015
To prepare the recombinant enolase of Streptococcus suis (SsEno), analyze the effect of SsEno on the antiphagocytosis by antibody-blocking assay in the human blood bactericidal model, and identify the human fibrinogen (hFg)-binding activity of SsEno protein.SsEno gene was amplified using the primers designed according to 05ZYH33 genome sequences and ...
Chunyue, Huo, Ying, Ji, Lili, Ren, Jing, Zhang, Junling, Kong   +4 more
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