Streptococcus equi subsp. equi meningitis, septicemia and subdural empyema in a child
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Bacteriological and Molecular Detection of Streptococcus equi subsp. equi and Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus in Equines of Northern India
Present study was undertaken to study the prevalence of β-haemolytic streptococci in equine of northern temperate region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. One hundred and forty one samples were collected in duplicate from nasopharyngeal tract of diseased (53) and apparently healthy equine (88) for isolation and direct PCR. A total of 77 isolates of streptococci were recovered from 141 samples with a...
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عنوان ژورنال: IDCases
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2214-2509
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00808