Streptococcus canis is an animal pathogen that occasionally causes human infections.
Isolates recovered from infections of animals (n= 78, recovered from 2000 to 2010 in three …

Background Streptococcus canis is an important opportunistic pathogen of dogs and cats
that can also infect a wide range of additional mammals including cows where it can cause …

Streptococcus canis is a multi-host pathogen that causes disease of varying severity in a
wide range of mammals, including humans. Dogs and cats appear to be the primary hosts …

To determine the prevalence of Streptococcus canis in dogs and cats, a total of 926 swabs
were examined bacteriologically in the period from 2003 to 2005. Eighty-six isolates …

Abstract Streptococcus canis (S. canis), Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus (S.
zooepidemicus) and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies (S. dysgalactiae subspecies) …

Streptococcus canis (Sc) is a zoonotic pathogen that is transferred mainly from companion
animals to humans. One of the major virulence factors in Sc is the M-like protein encoded by …

We report a human case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus canis.
Identification was carried out from positive blood culture using mass spectrometry and SodA …

The phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of 25 Streptococcus porcinus isolates
recovered from human sources were investigated and compared to the characteristics of 17 …

Streptococcus canis isolates, also including S. canis of artificially contaminated milk, could
be identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification using oligonucleotide …

Streptococcus (S.) canis is a neglected zoonotic pathogen with increasing impor-tance.
Since knowledge about its distribution in pets in Germany is scant, we designed a study and …