1. Spread of Streptococcus suis Sequence Type 7, China
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Changyun Ye, Xuemei Bai, Ji Zhang, Huaiqi Jing, Han Zheng, Huamao Du, Zhigang Cui, Shouying Zhang, Dong Jin, Jianguo Xu, Yanwen Xiong, Ailan Zhao, Xia Luo, Qiangzheng Sun, Marcelo Gottschalk, and Yanmei Xu
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Streptococcus suis ,multilocus sequence typing (MLST) ,tetracycline resistance ,transposon ,dispatch ,China ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Streptococcus suis sequence type (ST) 7 has been spreading throughout China. To determine events associated with its emergence, we tested 114 isolates. In all 106 ST7 strains responsible for human outbreaks and sporadic infections, the tetracycline-resistance gene, tetM, was detected on the conjugative transposon Tn916. Horizontal transmission of tetM is suspected.
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- 2008
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