Streptococcus suis, an important pig pathogen and emerging zoonotic agent—an update on the worldwide distribution based on serotyping and sequence typing

G Goyette-Desjardins, JP Auger, J Xu… - Emerging microbes & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Streptococcus suis is an important pathogen causing economic problems in the pig industry.
Moreover, it is a zoonotic agent causing severe infections to people in close contact with …

Streptococcus suis infection: An emerging/reemerging challenge of bacterial infectious diseases?

Y Feng, H Zhang, Z Wu, S Wang, M Cao, D Hu… - Virulence, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is a family of pathogenic gram-positive bacterial strains that
represents a primary health problem in the swine industry worldwide. S. suis is also an …

Update on Streptococcus suis Research and Prevention in the Era of Antimicrobial Restriction: 4th International Workshop on S. suis

M Segura, V Aragon, SL Brockmeier, C Gebhart… - 2020 - mdpi.com
Streptococcus suis is a swine pathogen and a zoonotic agent afflicting people in close
contact with infected pigs or pork meat. Sporadic cases of human infections have been …

Risk factors for Streptococcus suis infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A Rayanakorn, BH Goh, LH Lee, TM Khan… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Streptococcus suis (S. suis) is a gram-positive bacterial pathogen in pigs which can cause
serious infections in human including meningitis, and septicaemia resulting in serious …

Sociocultural Factors Influencing Human Streptococcus suis Disease in Southeast Asia

A Kerdsin, M Segura, N Fittipaldi, M Gottschalk - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
The public health systems of Southeast Asian countries are financially challenged by a
comparatively higher incidence of human S. suis infections than other geographical areas …

Development of Multiplex PCR Assays for the Identification of the 33 Serotypes of Streptococcus suis

Z Liu, H Zheng, M Gottschalk, X Bai, R Lan, S Ji, H Liu… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Streptococcus suis is an important zoonotic agent causing severe diseases in pigs and
humans. To date, 33 serotypes of S. suis have been identified based on antigenic …

Streptococcus suis Meningitis: Epidemiology, Clinical Presentation and Treatment

M Hlebowicz, P Jakubowski… - Vector-Borne and Zoonotic …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Streptococcus suis, a prevalent porcine pathogen, may sporadically cause infections in
humans, and has recently emerged as a cause of zoonoses in some professionals. The aim …

Streptococcus suis serotyping by a new multiplex PCR

A Kerdsin, Y Akeda, R Hatrongjit… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
A multiplex PCR was developed to detect all true serotypes of Streptococcus suis. This
multiplex PCR was composed of four reaction sets. The first set identified nine serotypes …

Characterization of Streptococcus suis isolates recovered between 2008 and 2011 from diseased pigs in Quebec, Canada

M Gottschalk, S Lacouture, L Bonifait, D Roy… - Veterinary …, 2013 - Elsevier
In the present study we report the distribution of different serotypes of Streptococcus suis
among strains isolated from diseased pigs in Québec, Canada, recovered between 2008 …

Human Streptococcus suis Infections in Thailand: Epidemiology, Clinical Features, Genotypes, and Susceptibility

A Kerdsin - Tropical medicine and infectious disease, 2022 - mdpi.com
Streptococcus suis is a zoonotic pathogen causing substantial economic losses to the pig
industry, as well as being a human health burden due to infections worldwide, especially in …