Identification of a Differentially Expressed Oligopeptide Binding Protein (OppA2) in Streptococcus uberis by Representational Difference Analysis of cDNA.
Streptococcus uberis is an increasingly significant cause of intramammary infection in the dairy cow, presently responsible for approximately 33% of all cases of bovine mastitis in the United Kingdom. Following experimentally induced infection of the lactating mammary gland, S. uberis is found predominantly in the luminal areas of secretory alveoli ... More