Kai Kobayashi, Hiroaki Kubota, Mari Tohya, Megumi Ushikubo, Miki Yamamoto, Tsukasa Ariyoshi, Yumi Uchitani, Morika Mitobe, Rumi Okuno, Ichiro Nakagawa, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Jun Suzuki, Kenji Sadamasu
Streptococcus suis is a gram-positive bacterium that causes meningitis, septicemia, endocarditis, and other disorders in pigs and humans. We obtained 42 and 50 S. suis isolates from lesions of porcine endocarditis and palatine tonsils, respectively, of clinically healthy pigs in Japan; we then determined their sequence types (STs) by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), cps genotypes, serotypes, and presence of classical major virulence-associated marker genes (mrp, epf, and sly). The 42 isolates from endocarditis lesions were assigned to a limited number of STs and clonal complexes (CCs)...
February 6, 2024: Veterinary Research