Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2019)

Streptococcus agalactiae Sequence Type 283 in Farmed Fish, Brazil

  • Carlos A.G. Leal,
  • Guilherme A. Queiroz,
  • Felipe L. Pereira,
  • Guilherme C. Tavares,
  • Henrique C.P. Figueiredo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2504.180543
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
pp. 776 – 779

Abstract

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In 2016 and 2017, we characterized outbreaks caused by Streptococcus agalactiae serotype III sequence type (ST) 283 in Nile tilapia farms in Brazil. Whole-genome multilocus sequence typing clustered the fish isolates together with the zoonotic ST283 and other STs related to cases in humans, frogs, dogs, cattle, and dolphins.

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