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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IS link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img width=604 height=70 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD18AB.BDF24D60"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:teal'>Þessi póstur er sendur tengiliðum við stofnanir, fyrirtæki, félög og hópa, til að kynna fræðsluerindi sem haldin eru á Tilraunastöðinni að Keldum. Vinsamlegast áframsendið með tölvupósti eftirfarandi upplýsingar til ykkar fólks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fræðsluerindi á Tilraunastöð Háskóla Íslands í meinafræði að Keldum.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Fyrirlesari: Dr. <b>Andrew Waller</b>, forstöðumaður bakteríurannsóknadeildar Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, Englandi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Heiti erindis: <b><i>Streptococcus zooepidemicus</i>: more than just an opportunist? (</b>Erindið tengist rannsóknum á orsök smitandi hósta í hrossum.)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Erindið verður haldið <u>miðvikudaginn 18. apríl</u>, kl. 12:20, í bókasafni Tilraunastöðvarinnar. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> Streptococcus equi </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>subspecies<i> zooepidemicus</i> (<i>S. zooepidemicus</i>) </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>is the most frequently isolated pathogen of horses: associated with inflammatory airway disease in Thoroughbred racehorses</span><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, uterine infections in mares</span><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>and ulcerative keratitis. It is also associated with disease in a wide range of other animal hosts including dogs, cattle, sheep</span><span lang=NL style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, pigs</span><span lang=FR style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, monkeys and humans</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>. A biovar of <i>S. zooepidemicus</i>, <i>Streptococcus equi </i>subspecies<i> equi</i> (<i>S. equi</i>), is the causative agent of equine strangles, one of the most frequently diagnosed and important infectious diseases of horses worldwide. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> We have used a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme and genome sequencing to identify different strains of <i>S. zooepidemicus</i> towards developing an understanding of the genetic basis for the selection of host and site of infection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> This presentation will describe our current understanding of the <i>S. zooepidemicus</i> population and relate this to the 2010 Icelandic outbreak of equine respiratory disease, which affected over 78,000 horses. The use of new sequencing technologies permits fine mapping of disease outbreaks at the genetic level that can provide new insights into the transmission and virulence of this misunderstood bacterium.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>_______________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sigurður H. Richter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Tilraunastöð H.Í. í meinafræði að Keldum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sími 896 5811<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>