Table 1. S. suis strains isolated from humans or pigs in Argentina included in this study.
| Strain | Source* | Clinical manifestation |
Serotype | Host | Date | Gender | Swine/pork contact |
Pathotype | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 285† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 1995 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 284 | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 1995 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 263† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2003 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 178† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2003 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 247† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2003 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 2376‡ | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2004 | F | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 12† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2009 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 83 | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2009 | M | Unknown | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 88 | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2009 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 245† | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2012 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 486† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2012 | M | Unknown | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 371† | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2013 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 473† | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2013 | F | Unknown | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 42 | CSF, blood | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2014 | F | Unknown | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 130/15 | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2015 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 695-15 | CSF | Meningitis | 2 | H | 2015 | M | Yes | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 136-16 | Joint | Arthritis | 2 | H | 2016 | M | No | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 15§ | CSF | Meningitis | 5 | H | 2014 | M | Yes | nd | nd |
| P156 | Spleen | Septicemia | 2 | S | 2000 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P232 | Joint | Arthritis | 2 | S | 2001 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 050798 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2001 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P421 | Joint | Arthritis | 2 | S | 2002 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 130387 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2002 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P517 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2003 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| 477 | Heart | Endocarditis | 2 | S | 2003 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P613 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2005 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P655 | Heart | Endocarditis | 2 | S | 2005 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P574 | Joint | Arthritis | 2 | S | 2005 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P611 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2005 | na | na | mrp+/epf+/sly+ | 1 |
| P706† | Lungs | Pneumonia | 2 | S | 2006 | na | na | mrp+/epf−/sly− | 28 |
| 50703-8 | Brain | Meningitis | 2 | S | 2010 | na | na | mrp+/epf−/sly− | 1 |
| BE 21¶ | Tonsils | None | 2 | S | 2014 | na | na | mrp+/epf−/sly− | 28 |
*When two sources of isolates are mentioned for the same patient, only one strain was characterized; †Strains studied by whole-genome sequencing (see Table 2); ‡(Lopreto et al., 2005); §Fatal case; ¶Clinically healthy pig. ST, sequence type (as evaluated by multilocus sequence typing); CSF, cerebrospinal fluid; nd, not determined; na, not applicable.