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Streptococcus suis, an important pig pathogen and emerging zoonotic agent—an update on the worldwide distribution based on serotyping and sequence typing

Guillaume Goyette-DesjardinsGroupe de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses du porc, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 2M2, Canada
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Jean-Philippe AugerGroupe de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses du porc, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 2M2, Canada
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Jianguo XuState Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China
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Mariela SeguraGroupe de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses du porc, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 2M2, Canada
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Marcelo GottschalkGroupe de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses du porc, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 2M2, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1-20 | Received 23 Sep 2015, Accepted 02 Nov 2015, Published online: 25 Jan 2019

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