Publications

characterization and protective immunogenicity of the szm protein of streptococcus zooepidemicus nc78 from a clonal outbreak of equine respiratory disease.	streptococcus zooepidemicus of lancefield group c is a highly variable tonsillar and mucosal commensal that usually is associated with opportunistic infections of the respiratory tract of vertebrate hosts. more-virulent clones have caused epizootics of severe respiratory disease in dogs and horses. the virulence factors of these strains are poorly understood. the antiphagocytic protein sem is a major virulence factor and protective antigen of streptococcus equi, a clonal biovar of an ancestral s ...	2013	23740925
characterization of a mucoid clone of streptococcus zooepidemicus from an epizootic of equine respiratory disease in new caledonia.	streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus (sz) is a tonsillar and mucosal commensal of healthy horses with the potential to cause opportunistic infections of the distal respiratory tract stressed by virus infection, transportation, training or high temperature. the invasive clone varies from horse to horse with little evidence of lateral transmission in the group. tonsillar isolates are non-mucoid although primary isolates from opportunist lower respiratory tract infections may initially be mu ...	2014	24618399