Streptococcus canis Are a Single Population Infecting Multiple Animal Hosts Despite the Diversity of the Universally Present M-Like Protein SCM

Streptococcus canis Are a Single Population Infecting Multiple Animal Hosts Despite the Diversity of the Universally Present M-Like Protein SCM

Streptococcus canis is an animal pathogen which occasionally causes infections in humans. The S. canis M-like protein (SCM) encoded by the scm gene, is its best characterized virulence factor but previous studies suggested it could be absent in a substantial fraction of isolates. We studied the dist...

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Main Authors: Marcos D. Pinho, Geoffrey Foster, Constança Pomba, Miguel P. Machado, Johanna L. Baily, Thijs Kuiken, José Melo-Cristino, Mário Ramirez, The Portuguese Group for the Study of Streptococcal Infections, Teresa Vaz, Marília Gião, Rui Ferreira, Ana Cristina Silva, Hermínia Costa, Maria Fátima Silva, Maria Amélia Afonso, Ana Domingos, Gina Marrão, José Grossinho, Paulo Lopes, Angelina Lameirão, Gabriela Abreu, Aurélia Selaru, Hermínia Marques, Margarida Tomaz, Paula Mota, Maria Helena Ramos, Ana Paula Castro, Fernando Fonseca, Nuno Canhoto, Teresa Afonso, Teresa Pina, Helena Peres, Odete Chantre, Joã Marques, Cristina Marcelo, Isabel Peres, Isabel Lourenço, Margarida Pinto, Lurdes Monteiro, Luís Marques Lito, Cristina Toscano, Maria Ana Pessanha, Elmano Ramalheira, Raquel Diaz, Sónia Ferreira, Inês Cravo Roxo, Graça Ribeiro, Rui Tomé, Celeste Pontes, Luísa Boaventura, Catarina Chaves, Teresa Reis, Ana Buschy Fonseca, Manuela Ribeiro, Helena Gonçalves, Alberta Faustino, Adelaide Alves, Maria Cármen Iglesias, Ilse Fontes, Paulo Martinho, Maria Luísa Gonçalves Olga Neto, Luísa Sancho, Adriana Coutinho, José Diogo, Ana Rodrigues, Maria Antónia Read Valquíria Alves Margarida Monteiro, Rosa Bento
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Streptococcus canis
multilocus sequence typing
M-like protein (SCM) gene
wildlife
genome
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00631/full

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