Publication Date:
2015-04-02
Description:
Article The bacterium Streptococcus suis causes respiratory tract infections in pigs and meningitis in humans. Here, the authors show that human disease isolates are limited to a single virulent population and find no consistent genomic differences between pig and human isolates. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms7740 Authors: Lucy A. Weinert, Roy R. Chaudhuri, Jinhong Wang, Sarah E. Peters, Jukka Corander, Thibaut Jombart, Abiyad Baig, Kate J. Howell, Minna Vehkala, Niko Välimäki, David Harris, Tran Thi Bich Chieu, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, James Campbell, Constance Schultsz, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D. Bentley, Paul R. Langford, Andrew N. Rycroft, Brendan W. Wren, Jeremy Farrar, Stephen Baker, Ngo Thi Hoa, Matthew T.G. Holden, Alexander W. Tucker, Duncan J. Maskell
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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