WHO Probes Deadliness of China's Pig-Borne Disease
WHO Probes Deadliness of China's Pig-Borne Disease
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DOI：
10.1126/science.309.5739.1308a
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发表时间：
2005-08
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
D. Normile
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作者：
D. Normile
传染病 国际专家担心，过去 2 个月里，一种毒性更强的新型猪链球菌可能导致中国中部四川省 38 人和 600 多头猪死亡。但他们对一种罕见且很少致命的疾病如何变得如此致命以及它是否会再次发作感到困惑，这种疾病通常在人类中的孤立病例中出现。
INFECTIOUS DISEASESInternational experts fear that a new, more virulent form of the bacterium Streptococcus suis could be responsible for killing 38 humans and more than 600 pigs in China's central Sichuan Province over the past 2 months. But they are puzzled about how a rare--and rarely fatal--disease that usually appears in isolated cases among humans became so deadly and whether it might strike again.