A cluster of Streptococcus suis meningitis in a family who traveled to Taiwan from Southern Vietnam
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A cluster of Streptococcus suis meningitis in a family who traveled to Taiwan from Southern Vietnam.
Streptococcus suis is an emerging zoonotic pathogen, and infection is easily misidentified. The first human case in Taiwan was reported in a swine farmer in 1994. Hsueh et al reported six isolates of Streptococcus acidominimus using commercial identification systems but later identified them as S. suis using 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis. We also identified S. suis meningitis (initially mis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1684-1182
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2014.06.003