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Streptococcus parasanguinis: new pathogen associated with asymptomatic mastitis in sheep
J F Fernández-Garayzábal1, E Fernández, A Las Heras
1Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. garayzab@eucmax.sim.ucm.es
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|December 29, 1998
Abstract:
We describe two unusual cases in sheep of subclinical mastitis caused by Streptococcus parasanguinis. This bacterium has been associated with the development of experimental endocarditis; its presence at relatively high concentrations in apparently healthy sheep milk may pose a health risk in persons with predisposing heart lesions.