Meningitis and endophthalmitis caused by Streptococcus suis type II (group R).

Streptococcus suis infection: a series of 41 cases from Chiang Mai University Hospital

“…[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] The majority of reported cases represented the evidence of percutaneous route of infection related to pigs or pork handling. 10,13,14 Human disease has several clinical manifestations such as acute bacterial meninigitis, [6][7][8][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] infective endocarditis, [22][23][24][25][26] septicaemia, [7][8][9][10][11]16,27 arthritis, 7,10,16,24,28 pneumonia, 10,16 peritonitis, 29 endophthalmitis, 18,[30][31] and spondylodiscitis. 12 In Thailand where S. suis infection was considered a rare disease, this disease was first described in Journal of Infection (2006) 1987.…”

Meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis type II

“…Five of the six previous infections reported in Britain occurred in men employed by the pig meat industry, confirming European experience (Zanen & Engel, 1975) and leading to suggestions that Streptococcus suis type II infections should be considered an industrial disease (Clements et al, 1982;Twort, 1981). Typical occupations include working in a pork pie factory (Agass et al, 1977;Hickling & Cormack, 1976) or abbatoir (Joynson, 1980) and meat inspection (Twort, 1981). The sixth patient was a housewife (Clements et al, 1982), who presumably shares with our patient the common feature of the purchase and preparation of porka hazard faced by very many Britons.…”

Permanent perceptive deafness due to streptococcus suis type II infection

“…Other cranial nerve palsies, especially ocular palsies, may develop, but are much less frequent than VIII nerve involvement. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (Zanen and Engel, 1975), endophthalmitis and arthritis (Agass et al, 1977) have also been reported.…”