Pathotyping the Zoonotic Pathogen Streptococcus suis: Novel Genetic Markers To Differentiate Invasive Disease-Associated Isolates from Non-Disease-Associated Isolates from England and Wales [Clinical Veterinary Microbiology]

We describe evaluation of our pathotyping tool, using an out-of-sample collection of 50 previously uncharacterized S. suis isolates, in comparison to existing methods used to characterize and subtype S. suis isolates. In doing so, we show our pathotyping approach to be a competitive method to characterize S. suis isolates recovered from pigs on UK farms and one that can easily be updated to incorporate global strain collections.

Source: Journal of Clinical Microbiology - June 24, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Wileman, T. M., Weinert, L. A., Howell, K. J., Wang, J., Peters, S. E., Williamson, S. M., Wells, J. M., Langford, P. R., Rycroft, A. N., Wren, B. W., Maskell, D. J., Tucker, A. W., on behalf of the BRaDP1T Consortium Tags: Clinical Veterinary Microbiology Source Type: research