TY - JOUR AU - Haas, Bruno AU - Bonifait, Laetitia AU - Vaillancourt, Katy AU - Charette, Steve J. AU - Gottschalk, Marcelo AU - Grenier, Daniel PY - 2014 DA - 2014/07/04 TI - Characterization of DNase activity and gene in Streptococcus suis and evidence for a role as virulence factor JO - BMC Research Notes SP - 424 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is an important swine pathogen and emerging zoonotic agent. Multilocus sequence typing allowed dividing S. suis serotype 2 into sequence types (STs). The three major STs of S. suis serotype 2 from North America are 1 (most virulent), 25 (intermediate virulence) and 28 (less virulent). Although the presence of DNase activity in S. suis has been previously reported, little data is available. The aim of this study was to investigate DNase activity in S. suis according to STs, to characterize the activity and gene, and to provide evidence for a potential role in virulence. SN - 1756-0500 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-7-424 DO - 10.1186/1756-0500-7-424 ID - Haas2014 ER -