Two cases of meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis occurred in Madagascar, 1 in 2015 and 1 in 2016. We report the characterization of the novel sequence type, 834, which carried the mrp+/sly+/epf+ virulence marker and a mutation G→T at position 174, leading to a substitution mutS1 to mutS284.
Keywords: Africa; Madagascar; ST834; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Streptococcus suis; Togo; bacteria; bacterial meningitis; farm; human infection; meningitis/encephalitis; pig; pork meat; swine; whole-genome sequencing.