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SUBMITTER: Lyhs U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5189126 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lyhs Ulrike U Kulkas Laura L Katholm Jørgen J Waller Karin Persson KP Saha Kerttu K Tomusk Richard J RJ Zadoks Ruth N RN
Emerging infectious diseases 20161201 12
Streptococcus agalactiae is an emerging pathogen of nonpregnant human adults worldwide and a reemerging pathogen of dairy cattle in parts of Europe. To learn more about interspecies transmission of this bacterium, we compared contemporaneously collected isolates from humans and cattle in Finland and Sweden. Multilocus sequence typing identified 5 sequence types (STs) (ST1, 8, 12, 23, and 196) shared across the 2 host species, suggesting possible interspecies transmission. More than 54% of the is ...[more]