TY - JOUR AU - Ye, Changyun AU - Bai, Xuemei AU - Zhang, Ji AU - Jing, Huaiqi AU - Zheng, Han AU - Du, Huamao AU - Cui, Zhigang AU - Zhang, Shouying AU - Jin, Dong AU - Xu, Jianguo AU - Xiong, Yanwen AU - Zhao, Ailan AU - Luo, Xia AU - Sun, Qiangzheng AU - Gottschalk, Marcelo AU - Xu, Yanmei T1 - Spread of Streptococcus suis Sequence Type 7, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 5 SP - 787 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Streptococcus suis KW - multilocus sequence typing (MLST) KW - tetracycline resistance KW - transposon KW - dispatch KW - China DO - 10.3201/eid1405.070437 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/5/07-0437_article ER - End of Reference