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Carriage of the zoonotic organism Streptococcus suis in chicken flocks in Vietnam.
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- المؤلفون: Nhung, Nguyen Thi1 (AUTHOR); Yen, Nguyen Thi Phuong1 (AUTHOR); Cuong, Nguyen1 (AUTHOR); Kiet, Bach Tuan2 (AUTHOR); Hien, Vo Be2 (AUTHOR); Campbell, James1,3 (AUTHOR); Thwaites, Guy1,3 (AUTHOR); Baker, Stephen4 (AUTHOR); Geskus, Ronald1,3 (AUTHOR); Ashton, Philip1,3 (AUTHOR); Carrique‐Mas, Juan1,3 (AUTHOR)
- المصدر:
Zoonoses & Public Health. Dec2020, Vol. 67 Issue 8, p843-848. 6p.
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- نبذة مختصرة :
Streptococcus suis infections are an emerging zoonotic agent causing severe disease in humans and a major pig pathogen worldwide. We investigated the colonization of S. suis in healthy chickens in different flocks (n = 59) as well as in‐contact pigs in farms with S. suis‐positive chickens (n = 44) in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Streptococcus suis was isolated from 20 (33.9%) chicken flocks and from all pigs investigated. Chicken isolates formed a distinct genotypic cluster compared with pig and human strains, although two chicken isolates (10%) clustered with pig isolates. Chicken isolates had unusually high levels of resistance against tetracycline (100%), clindamycin (100%) and erythromycin (95%); and intermediate resistance against penicillin (35%) and ceftriaxone (15%). Our findings suggest that chickens may potentially represent a source of S. suis infection to in‐contact humans and pigs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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