Abstract
Abbreviations: EF, extracellular factor; MLST, multilocus sequence typing; MRP, muramidase-released protein; OFS, opacity factor of Streptococcus suis; SOF, serum opacity factor of Streptococcus pyogenes; ST, sequence type.
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the sequences of the ofs loci of S. suis NIAH 11433, DAT299, DAT246, DAT252 and MNCM51 are AB325706, AB325707, AB325708, AB325709 and AB325710, respectively, and for the new allele sequences of aroA, cpn60, dpr, gki, mutS, recA and thrA are AB330897–AB330899, AB330900–AB330907, AB330908–AB330909, AB330910–AB330915, AB330916–AB330922, AB330923–AB330927 and AB330928–AB330932, respectively.
A table of isolates and a figure showing Southern blot hybridization analysis are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.