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Letter to the Editor

Predominance of Streptococcus suis ST1 and ST7 in human cases in China, and detection of a novel sequence type, ST658

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Pages 1031-1035 | Received 26 Aug 2016, Accepted 26 Sep 2016, Published online: 01 Nov 2016

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