TY - JOUR AU - Yu, Hongjie AU - Jing, Huaiqi AU - Chen, Zhihai AU - Zheng, Han AU - Zhu, Xiaoping AU - Wang, Hua AU - Wang, Shiwen AU - Liu, Lunguang AU - Zu, Rongqiang AU - Luo, Longze AU - Xiang, Nijuan AU - Liu, Honglu AU - Liu, Xuecheng AU - Shu, Yuelong AU - Lee, Shui Shan AU - Chuang, Shuk Kwan AU - Wang, Yu AU - Xu, Jianguo AU - Yang, Weizhong T1 - Human Streptococcus suis Outbreak, Sichuan, China T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 6 SP - 914 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From mid-July to the end of August 2005, a total of 215 cases of human Streptococcus suis infections, 66 of which were laboratory confirmed, were reported in Sichuan, China. All infections occurred in backyard farmers who were directly exposed to infection during the slaughtering process of pigs that had died of unknown causes or been killed for food because they were ill. Sixty-one (28%) of the farmers had streptococcal toxic shock syndrome; 38 (62%) of them died. The other illnesses reported were sepsis (24%) and meningitis (48%) or both. All isolates tested positive for genes for tuf, species-specific 16S rRNA, cps2J, mrp, ef, and sly. A single strain of S. suis caused the outbreak, as shown by the identification of a single ribotype. The high death ratio was of concern; prohibiting backyard slaughtering ended the outbreak. KW - Keywords: Streptococcus suis KW - streptococcal toxic shock syndrome KW - outbreak KW - zoonoses KW - research KW - China DO - 10.3201/eid1206.051194 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/05-1194_article ER - End of Reference