Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2018)

Urban Wild Boars and Risk for Zoonotic Streptococcus suis, Spain

  • Xavier Fernández-Aguilar,
  • Marcelo Gottschalk,
  • Virginia Aragon,
  • Jordi Càmara,
  • Carmen Ardanuy,
  • Roser Velarde,
  • Nuria Galofré-Milà,
  • Raquel Castillo-Contreras,
  • Jorge R. López-Olvera,
  • Gregorio Mentaberre,
  • Andreu Colom-Cadena,
  • Santiago Lavín,
  • Oscar Cabezón

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2406.171271
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 6
pp. 1083 – 1086

Abstract

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Urban wild boars (Sus scrofa) from Barcelona, Spain, harbor great diversity of Streptococcus suis strains, including strains with the cps2 gene and with the same molecular profile as local human cases. The increasing trend of potential effective contacts for S. suis transmission is of public health concern.

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