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SUBMITTER: Bidewell CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5823397 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bidewell Cornelia A CA Williamson Susanna M SM Rogers Jon J Tang Yue Y Ellis Richard J RJ Petrovska Liljana L AbuOun Manal M
PloS one 20180222 2
Between 2011 and 2014 outbreaks of septicaemia due to Klebsiella pneumoniae subspecies pneumoniae (Kpp) were diagnosed on thirteen English pig farms. The most consistent features were rapid deaths of pigs from ten-days-old to weaning, seasonal occurrence (May to September), affected farms being outdoor breeding herds and the location of all but one of the outbreaks in the East Anglia region in Eastern England. Molecular characterisation of the outbreak Kpp isolates showed that by multilocus sequ ...[more]