Globetrotting strangles: the unbridled national and international transmission of <i>Streptococcus equi</i> between horses.

ABSTRACT: The equine disease strangles, which is characterized by the formation of abscesses in the lymph nodes of the head and neck, is one of the most frequently diagnosed infectious diseases of horses around the world. The causal agent, Streptococcus equi subspecies equi, establishes a persistent infection in approximately 10 % of animals that recover from the acute disease. Such 'carrier' animals appear healthy and are rarely identified during routine veterinary examinations pre-purchase or transit, but can transmit S. equi to naïve animals initiating new episodes of disease. Here, we report the analysis and visualization of phylogenomic and epidemiological data for 670 isolates of S. equi recovered from 19 different countries using a new core-genome multilocus sequen

SUBMITTER: Mitchell C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8190609 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature