Comparative Genome Analyses of Streptococcus suis Isolates from Endocarditis Demonstrate Persistence of Dual Phenotypic Clones

Mari Tohya; Takayasu Watanabe; Fumito Maruyama; Sakura Arai; Atsushi Ota; Taryn B. T. Athey; Nahuel Fittipaldi; Ichiro Nakagawa; Tsutomu Sekizaki

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159558

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Comparative Genome Analyses of Streptococcus suis Isolates from Endocarditis Demonstrate Persistence of Dual Phenotypic Clones

Mari Tohya,

Affiliation Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Takayasu Watanabe,

Affiliation Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Fumito Maruyama ,

* E-mail: asekizak@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); maruyama.fumito.5e@kyoto-u.ac.jp (FM)

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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Sakura Arai,

Affiliation Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Atsushi Ota,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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Taryn B. T. Athey,

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Nahuel Fittipaldi,

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ichiro Nakagawa,

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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Tsutomu Sekizaki

* E-mail: asekizak@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (TS); maruyama.fumito.5e@kyoto-u.ac.jp (FM)

Current address: Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Comparative Genome Analyses of Streptococcus suis Isolates from Endocarditis Demonstrate Persistence of Dual Phenotypic Clones

Mari Tohya,
Takayasu Watanabe,
Fumito Maruyama,
Sakura Arai,
Atsushi Ota,
Taryn B. T. Athey,
Nahuel Fittipaldi,
Ichiro Nakagawa,
Tsutomu Sekizaki

Published: July 19, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159558

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