A team led by researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has developed a diagnostic test that can identify virulent forms of the swine bacterial pathogen Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus—often referred to as “Strep zoo”—which can cause severe illness and death in pigs, other animals and rarely people.
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Source: Phys.org