Streptococcus suis serotype 2
Interleukin-1 signaling induced by Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is strain-dependent and contributes to bacterial clearance and inflammation during systemic disease in a mouse model of infection
... Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important porcine pathogen and zoonotic agent causing sudden death, septic shock and meningitis, with exacerbated inflammation being a hallmark of the ...S. ...
18
Rapid Visual Detection of Highly Pathogenic Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 Isolates by Use of Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification
... Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (S. suis 2) is an important zoonotic pathogen that causes considerable economic losses to the pig industry and significantly threatens public health ...
7
Distribution of Environmentally Regulated Genes of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 among S suis Serotypes and Other Organisms
... Streptococcus suis is a major problem in the swine industry. S. suis causes a wide variety of infections in young piglets, including septicemia, meningitis, polyarthritis, and endocardi- tis (7, 22), ...
8
Cloning and Characterization of the Gene Encoding the Glutamate Dehydrogenase of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2
... S. suis strains have been classified into three groups (highly virulent, moderately virulent, and avirulent) based on their degree of pathogenicity ...S. suis type ...
7
Differentiation of Highly Virulent Strains of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 According to Glutamate Dehydrogenase Electrophoretic and Sequence Type
... Three levels of virulence have been shown to exist among the strains belonging to S. suis serotype 2: high virulence, moderate virulence, and no virulence (22, 23). Highly virulent strains produce ...
7
Characterization of the zinc metalloprotease of Streptococcus suis serotype 2
... Streptococcus suis is a swine pathogen and zoonotic agent responsible for meningitis and septic ...S. suis pathogenesis remain poorly ...S. suis serotype 2 zinc metalloprotease ...
15
Virulent strains of Streptococcus suis serotype 2 and highly virulent strains of Streptococcus suis serotype 1 can be recognized by a unique ribotype profile
... S. suis strains and of an ...S. suis strains and the other streptococcal ...S. suis strains both for diagnostic purposes and in epidemiological ...
5
Efficacy of Antimicrobial Treatments and Vaccination Regimens for Control of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus and Streptococcus suis Coinfection of Nursery Pigs
... groups 2 to 6 that were euthanized or died prior to the 28-DPI ...S. suis from one pig in group 7 (Resp- PRRS/Repro modified live-virus vaccine) that died at 13 DPI (6 days postinoculation with ...S. ...
5
Serotype-specific role of antigen I/II in the initial steps of the pathogenesis of the infection caused by Streptococcus suis
... the serotype 2 agI/II gene, exclud- ing the sequences coding for the cell wall anchorage and the LPXTG domains, was cloned into the pET151 expres- sion vector (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s ...
15
Impact of serotype and sequence type on the preferential aerosolization of Streptococcus suis
... Background: Streptococcus suis is a swine pathogen that causes pneumonia, septicemia and ...S. suis strains are classified into 35 serotypes based on the composition of their polysaccharide ...S. ...
7
Genomic comparisons of Streptococcus suis serotype 9 strains recovered from diseased pigs in Spain and Canada
... The phylogeny of the 30 sequenced strains from this study as well as four additionally available serotype 9 genomes (D12, DN13, S91K, and 22083) was assessed. Genes that were included in all strains were ...
13
Serotype and Genotype (Multilocus Sequence Type) of Streptococcus suis Isolates from the United States Serve as Predictors of Pathotype
... the 2 by 2 table was created comparing that pathotype and subtype against all ...Similar 2 by 2 tables were generated for testing pathotype and serotype-ST- combinations by chi-square ...
16
First human case report of sepsis due to infection with Streptococcus suis serotype 31 in Thailand
... group Streptococcus. It was confirmed at a reference laboratory as S. suis serotype 31 by biochemical tests, 16S rDNA sequencing, and multiplex polymerase chain reaction for serotyping, but it was ...
7
Development of a Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for the Pig Pathogen Streptococcus suis: Identification of Virulent Clones and Potential Capsular Serotype Exchange
... Fig. 2, serotype 2 isolates are represented in 16 of the 92 STs, sero- type 9 isolates are represented in 7 distinct STs, and serotype 7 isolates are represented in 5 distinct ...with ...
10
Multiplex PCR Assay for Detection of Streptococcus suis Species and Serotypes 2 and 1/2 in Tonsils of Live and Dead Pigs
... S. suis serotypes and more specifically serotypes 2 and ...detect serotype 2 alone, because this serotype is the major cause of disease in France and because it is a zoonotic agent that ...
7
The inflammatory response and neuronal injury in Streptococcus suis meningitis
... capsular serotype ( cps) 2+ S. suis strains, were intranasally infected with approximately 1 × 10 9 colony forming units (CFU) ...S. suis serotype 2 strain 10 (sly+, mrp+, epf+) ...
9
Streptococcus suis Bacterin and Subunit Vaccine Immunogenicities and Protective Efficacies against Serotypes 2 and 9
... S. suis serotype 9 strain A3286/94 were similar in neutrophil killing assays with post- and preimmunization sera from piglets of all three groups (as indicated in ...the serotype 2 bacterin ...
9
Use of Ribotyping and Hemolysin Activity To Identify Highly Virulent Streptococcus suis Type 2 Isolates
... same serotype of ...S. suis (21). Re- striction fragment length polymorphism analysis of S. suis has been shown to be an effective tool for examining the natural history of ...S. suis disease ...
5
Characterization of porcine dendritic cell response to Streptococcus suis
... S. suis wild-type or its non-encapsulated mutant strain (MOI:1). After 2 h of bacteria-cell contact, coverslips were washed with PBS to remove non-associated bacteria, and cells fixed with methanol/acetone ...
12
Serotypes of Streptococcus suis isolated from healthy pigs in Phayao Province, Thailand
... Serotype 2, the most virulent and most frequently associated with disease in both pigs and humans [6, 35], was attributed to 11 of the 196 strains ...hand, serotype 2 human cases reported in ...
7