Streptococcus suis (ex Elliot 1966) Kilpper-Bälz and Schleifer 1987
Streptococcus suis is an important bacterial pathogen of pigs. The pathogen is present in nearly all countries with an extensive pig industry. It is also a zoonotic disease which means that it can be transmitted between animals and humans. Humans can be infected with the pathogen when they handle infected pig carcasses and meat with exposed cuts and abrasions on their hands. Human infection may be severe, with meningitis, septicaemia, endocarditis, and deafness as possible outcomes of infection, death can also occur. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria is also the fictional name of a warring nation under Benzino Napaloni as dictator, in the 1940 film The Great Dictator... Classes Bacilli Clostridia Mollicutes The Firmicutes are a group of bacteria, most of which have Gram-positive stains. ... Orders Bacillales Lactobacillales The term bacilli (singular bacillus) is used to refer to any rod-shaped bacteria. ... Families Aerococcaceae Carnobacteriaceae Enterococcaceae Lactobacillaceae Leuconostocaceae Streptococcaceae The Lactobacillales are an order of Gram-positive bacteria, placed within the Firmicutes. ... Species S. faecalis S. pneumoniae S. pyogenes S. suis S. viridans Streptococcus is a genus of spherical, Gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Binomial name Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758 The domestic pig is usually given the scientific name Sus scrofa, though some authors call it , reserving for the wild boar. ... Zoonosis is any infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals, both wild and domestic, to humans. ... Inferior view of a brain with meningitis caused by Haemophilus influenzae. ... Sepsis (in Greek Σήψις) is a serious medical condition caused by a severe systemic infection leading to a systemic inflammatory response. ... Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. ... This article is about hearing impairment in the patholocial sense. ...
In July 2005 a outbreak of the disease in humans was reported in Sichuan, South West China. 117 people had been affected by the disease, with 24 deaths reported. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ...
Treatment is by penicillin. In cases of endocarditis, gentamicin should also be given. Penicillin is a β-lactam antibiotic used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually Gram-positive, organisms. ... Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. ... Gentamicin is a aminoglycoside antibiotic, and can treat many different types of bacterial infections, particularly Gram-negative infection. ...
An outbreak of Streptococcussuis serotype 2 emerged in the summer of 2005 in Sichuan Province, and sporadic infections occurred in 4 additional provinces of China.
Streptococcussuis, a swine pathogen, is increasing in clinical importance in countries with intensive swine industries (1-4).
In this complex, S. suis ST-7 emerged first in Hong Kong in 1996, caused 28 cases in Jiangsu Province in 1998, and was responsible for the largest outbreak of human S. suis infection in history that occurred in Sichuan Province, China, in 2005 and resulted in 215 cases with 38 deaths (8,21,30).
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