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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Streptococcus Suis Sc070731
SUBMITTER: Zongfu Wu
PROVIDER: PXD050638 | iProX | Fri Mar 15 00:00:00 GMT 2024
REPOSITORIES: iProX
Virulence 20250416 1
<i>Streptococcus suis</i> is a Gram-positive pathogen causing septicaemia and meningitis in pigs and humans. However, how <i>S. suis</i> maintains a high bacterial load in the blood and brain is poorly understood. In this study, we found that a small RNA rss03 is predominantly present in <i>S. suis</i>, <i>Streptococcus parasuis</i>, and <i>Streptococcus ruminantium</i>, implying a conserved biological function. rss03 with a size of 303 nt mainly exists in <i>S. suis</i> sequence type (ST) 1 and ...[more]