Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Research
Genotypic Profile of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 and Clinical Features of Infection in Humans, Thailand
Anusak Kerdsin, Surang Dejsirilert, Parichart Puangpatra, Saowalak Sripakdee, Koranan Chumla, Nitsara Boonkerd, Pitimol Polwichai, Susumu Tanimura, Dan Takeuchi, Tatsuya Nakayama, Shota Nakamura, Yukihiro Akeda, Marcelo Gottschalk, Pathom Sawanpanyalert, and Kazunori Oishi
Table 1
Genotypic profiles of 165 clinical isolates of Streptococcus suis serotype 2, Thailand, January 2006–August 2008*
| ST complex | ST | VAG† | Isolation site | 89K PAI |
No. (%) strains | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| + | – | |||||
| 1 |
1 | epf–/sly+/mrp+ | Blood | 1 | 0 | 103 (62.4) |
| epf+/sly+/mrp+ | Blood | 52 | 13 | |||
| CSF | 29 | 5 | ||||
| epf+/sly+/mrps | Blood | 0 | 1 | |||
| CSF | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 126 |
epf+/sly+/mrp+ |
Blood | 1 | 0 | 3 (1.8) |
|
| CSF |
2 |
0 |
||||
| 27 |
28 |
epf–/sly–/mrp+ |
Blood | 0 | 1 | 3 (1.8) |
| CSF |
0 |
2 |
||||
| 29 |
25 | epf–/sly–/mrp* | Blood | 8 | 0 | 11 (6.7) |
| epf–/sly–/mrp+ | Blood | 3 | 0 | |||
| 103 |
epf–/sly–/mrp* | Blood | 2 | 0 | 3 (1.8) |
|
| epf–/sly–/mrp+ |
Blood |
1 |
0 |
|||
| 104 |
104 |
epf–/sly+/mrp– |
Blood | 3 | 38 | 42 (25.5) |
| CSF |
0 |
1 |
||||
| Total no. strains | – | – | – | 102 | 63 | 165 (100) |
