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Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Research

Lineage and Virulence of Streptococcus suis Serotype 2 Isolates from North America

Nahuel Fittipaldi, Jiangu Xu, Sonia Lacouture, Prasit Tharavichitkul, Makoto Osaki, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Daisuke Takamatsu, and Marcelo GottschalkComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Université de Montréal, St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada (N. Fittipaldi, S. Lacouture, M. Gottschalk); National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (J. Xu); Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (P. Tharavichitkul); Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council, Tokyo, Japan (M. Osaki); The University of Tokyo, Tokyo (T. Sekizaki); National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Japan (D. Takamatsu)

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Figure 1

Survival of CD1 mice inoculated with Streptococcus suis strains of different sequence types (STs). Most animals that received the ST1 strain P1/7 died from septicemia during the first 3 days of the trial. Several animals in this group died from meningitis from day 6 postinfection. Two groups of mice received ST25 strains 89–1591 and 1085543, respectively. Survival of mice in these 2 groups was higher than in the group that received the ST1 strain. However, >40% of the animals in the 89–1591 g

Figure 1. Survival of CD1 mice inoculated with Streptococcus suis strains of different sequence types (STs). Most animals that received the ST1 strain P1/7 died from septicemia during the first 3 days of the trial. Several animals in this group died from meningitis from day 6 postinfection. Two groups of mice received ST25 strains 89–1591 and 1085543, respectively. Survival of mice in these 2 groups was higher than in the group that received the ST1 strain. However, >40% of the animals in the 89–1591 group and 60% of the animals in the 1085543 group died or were killed for ethical reasons before the end of the trial. In strong contrast, all 15 mice in the ST28 strain group survived the trial. Significant differences in survival were noted between groups (log-rank test, p values indicated in the figure body).

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