OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis

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Immunology and Infection

Intracranial Subarachnoidal Route of Infection for Investigating Roles of Streptococcus suis Biofilms in Meningitis in a Mouse Infection Model

Shouming Zhang^1,2,3, Xueping Gao^1,2,3, Genhui Xiao^1,2,3,4, Chengping Lu^1,2,3, Huochun Yao^1,2,3, Hongjie Fan^1,2,3,5, Zongfu Wu^1,2,3

¹College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, ²Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, ³OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, ⁴School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, ⁵Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses

Here, we describe the intracranial subarachnoidal route of infection in mice to study roles of biofilms in Streptococcus suis meningitis. This infection model is also suitable for studying the pathogenesis of other bacterial meningitis and the efficacy of new drugs against bacterial meningitis.