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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Dispatch

Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Infections Associated with Guinea Pigs

Karen GruszynskiComments to Author , Andrea Young, Seth J. Levine, Joseph P. Garvin, Susan Brown, Lauren Turner, Angela Fritzinger, Robert E. Gertz, Julia M. Murphy, Marshall Vogt, and Bernard Beall
Author affiliations: Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia, USA (K. Gruszynski, S.J. Levine, J.M. Murphy); Virginia Department of Health, Manassas, VA (A. Young); Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Richmond (J.P. Garvin, S. Brown); Department of General Services, Richmond (L. Turner, A. Fritzinger); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA (R.E. Gertz, Jr., B. Beall); Virginia Department of Health, Chesterfield, VA (M. Vogt); Chippenham Johnston-Willis Medical Center, Richmond (M. Vogt)

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Table

Closest species matches to multilocus sequence typing alleles of study Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus isolates

Allele* Length, bp Closest GenBank overall species match
(% identity/overlap)† Next best GenBank matches
(% identity/overlap)†
arcC27 437 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, ATCC35246 (100%/437 bp); H70 (99%/437 bp); MHCS10565 (97%/437 bp) S. equi subsp. equi strain 4047 (97%/437 bp)
nrdE19 448 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, ATCC35246, MGCS10565 (99%/448 bp); H70 (97%/448 bp) S. equi subsp. equi strain 4047 (94%/448 bp); S. thermophilus ASCC1275,JIM8232,ND03, 5 others (80%/447 bp)
spi45 459 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, ATCC35246,4047 (100%/459 bp); MGCS10565 (99%/459 bp); H70 (94%/459 bp) S. dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis strains ATCC12394, 167, AC2713, RE378, GGS124 (72%/447 bp)
tdk1 370 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, 636199–1A, 65843, ATCC35246, H70 (100%/370 bp); 15 others (99%/370 bp) S. equi subsp. equi strain 4047 (99%/370bp); S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus 10 strains (96%–98%/369 bp)
tpi34 424 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, 14580–1A, 44464, ATCC35246 (100%/424bp); 22 others (99%/424 bp); 27 others (95%–97%/424 bp) S. equi subsp. equi strain 4047 (97%/424 bp); S. pyogenes 20 strains (82%/422 bp)
yqiL46 396 S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strains CY, ATCC35246 (100%/396 bp); >30 strains (99%/396 bp); >20 strains (95%–98%/396 bp) S. equi subsp. equi strain 4047 (97%/424 bp); S. pyogenes MGAS6180 (70%/422 bp)

*All 4 isolates shared the identical arcC27, nrdE19, spi45, tdk1, tpi34, yqiL46 alleles; sequences provided at http://pubmlst.org/szooepidemicus.
†Searches performed at http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi

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