Assessment of pig saliva as a Streptococcus suis reservoir and potential source of infection on farms by use of a novel quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay

Sakura Arai,Hyunjung Kim,Takayasu Watanabe,Mari Tohya,Eriko Suzuki,Kasumi Ishida-Kuroki,Fumito Maruyama,Kazunori Murase,Ichiro Nakagawa,Tsutomu Sekizaki

Assessment of pig saliva as a Streptococcus suis reservoir and potential source of infection on farms by use of a novel quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay

2018

Sakura Arai
Hyunjung Kim
Takayasu Watanabe
Mari Tohya
Eriko Suzuki
Kasumi Ishida-Kuroki
Fumito Maruyama
Kazunori Murase
Ichiro Nakagawa
Tsutomu Sekizaki

OBJECTIVE To evaluate colonization of Streptococcus suis and Streptococcus parasuis on pig farms in Japan and to identify sources of infections. SAMPLE Saliva, feces, and vaginal swab samples from ...

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Virology
Streptococcus parasuis
Streptococcus suis
Colonization
Biology
Saliva
Feces
Real-time polymerase chain reaction
potential source
pig farms

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