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JDR Vol.7 No.3 pp. 303-312
(2012)
doi: 10.20965/jdr.2012.p0303

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Streptococcus suis: An Emerging Biothreat

Tsutomu Sekizaki

Research Center for Food Safety and OIE Collaborating Centre for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan

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September 20, 2011
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November 8, 2011
Published:
April 1, 2012
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Keywords:
Streptococcus suis, toxic shock syndrome, zoonosis, meningitis, endocarditis
Abstract
Streptococcus suis infections in pigs are often seen in major hog-producing countries. This bacterium is also a zoonotic agent affecting, for the most part, people in close contact with swine or pork by-products. The human S. suis infections have generally been sporadic; however, in recent years, this bacterium has strongly emerged as an important public health issue in Southeast and East Asia. Most human infections have so far been recognized to cause adult meningitis; however, a recent outbreak that occurred in Sichuan Province, China, involved a fatal disease, known as the streptococcus toxic-shock syndrome. Almost all human infections were caused by contact with diseased pigs or contaminated pork by-products, so reducing the number of virulent strains of S. suis in hog populations is an important task in diminishing the level of risk in human S. suis infections. However, the S. suis strains show various degrees of virulence, and many clinically healthy pigs may carry S. suis, some of which are avirulent and some of whichmust be virulent. Therefore, a rapid assay system to identify the virulent strains of S. suis is urgently needed. Here, general information on S. suis is described, and the recent research progress on this bacterium is summarized.
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T. Sekizaki, “Streptococcus suis: An Emerging Biothreat,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.7 No.3, pp. 303-312, 2012.
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