Environmentally regulated genes of Streptococcus suis: identification by the use of iron-restricted conditions in vitro and by experimental infection of piglets

The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences determined in this work are AF302190–AF302207 (iri genes) and AF303226–303247 (ivs genes).

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