1. New Sequence Types and Antimicrobial Drug–Resistant Strains of Streptococcus suis in Diseased Pigs, Italy, 2017–2019
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Lucilla Cucco, Marta Paniccià, Francesca Romana Massacci, Alessandra Morelli, Massimo Ancora, Iolanda Mangone, Adriano Di Pasquale, Andrea Luppi, Denis Vio, Cesare Cammà, and Chiara Francesca Magistrali
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Streptococcus suis ,infection ,serotype ,virulence ,swine ,penicillin ,Medicine ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 - Abstract
Streptococcus suis is a pathogen associated with severe diseases in pigs and humans. Human infections have a zoonotic origin in pigs. To assess circulating strains, we characterized the serotypes, sequence types, and antimicrobial susceptibility of 78 S. suis isolates from diseased farmed pigs in Italy during 2017–2019. Almost 60% of infections were caused by serotypes 1/2 and 9. All but 1 of the serotype 2 and 1/2 isolates were confined to a single cluster, and serotype 9 isolates were distributed along the phylogenetic tree. Besides sequence type (ST) 1, the serotype 2 cluster included ST7, which caused severe human infections in China in 1998 and 2005. A large proportion of serotype 9 isolates, assigned to ST123, were resistant to penicillin. The emergence of this clone threatens the successful treatment of S. suis infection. Characterizing S. suis isolates from pigs will promote earlier detection of emerging clones.
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- 2022
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