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SUBMITTER: Ye C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2600270 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ye Changyun C Bai Xuemei X Zhang Ji J Jing Huaiqi H Zheng Han H Du Huamao H Cui Zhigang Z Zhang Shouying S Jin Dong D Xu Yanmei Y Xiong Yanwen Y Zhao Ailan A Luo Xia X Sun Qiangzheng Q Gottschalk Marcelo M Xu Jianguo J
Emerging infectious diseases 20080501 5
Streptococcus suis sequence type (ST) 7 has been spreading throughout China. To determine events associated with its emergence, we tested 114 isolates. In all 106 ST7 strains responsible for human outbreaks and sporadic infections, the tetracycline-resistance gene, tetM, was detected on the conjugative transposon Tn916. Horizontal transmission of tetM is suspected. ...[more]