TY - JOUR AU - Costa, Matheus de AU - Lage, Brad T1 - Streptococcus equi Subspecies zooepidemicus and Sudden Deaths in Swine, Canada T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 10 SP - 2522 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Historically described as a commensal of the swine upper respiratory tract, Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus was previously reported as an important swine pathogen only in Asia. Here we report the isolation and whole genome characterization of S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus associated with a sudden death outbreak in pigs in Canada. KW - Antimicrobial resistance KW - bacteria KW - cocci KW - lymph nodes KW - mortality KW - Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae KW - North America KW - outbreak KW - pigs KW - pneumonia KW - sows KW - Streptococcus zooepidemicus KW - sudden death KW - Canada KW - Streptococcus equi KW - sudden deaths KW - swine KW - zooepidemicus DO - 10.3201/eid2610.191485 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/19-1485_article ER - End of Reference