猪链球菌
人畜共患病
爆发
病菌
疾病
脑膜炎
生物
潜伏期
人类病原体
病毒学
微生物学
医学
孵化
儿科
毒力
病理
细菌
基因
生物化学
遗传学
作者
Marcelo Gottschalk,Jianguo Xu,Cynthia Calzas,Mariela Segura
出处
期刊:Future Microbiology
[Future Medicine]
日期:2010-03-01
卷期号:5 (3): 371-391
被引量:368
摘要
Infections caused by Streptococcus suis are considered a global and an economical problem in the swine industry. Moreover, S. suis is an agent of zoonosis that afflicts people in close contact with infected pigs or pork-derived products. Although sporadic cases of S. suis infections in humans (mainly meningitis) have been reported during the last 40 years, a large outbreak due to this pathogen emerged in the summer of 2005 in China. The severity of the infection in humans during the outbreak, such as a shorter incubation time, more rapid disease progression and higher rate of mortality, attracted a lot of attention from the scientific community and the general press. In fact, the number of publications on S. suis (including the number of reported human cases) has significantly increased during recent years. In this article we critically review the present knowledge on S. suis infection in humans, we discuss the hypotheses that may explain the 2005 outbreak and the repercussion of such an episode on the scientific community.
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