Though a recent study by Wang et al. indicates that the interaction of fibrinogen with MRP on the bacterial surface promotes the development of meningitis in S. suis serotype 2 [17], S. suis ST29 strains secreting MRPs were isolated from numerous cases with meningitis herd problems and meningitis was experimentally induced in four of five piglets intravenously infected in this study with a S. suis cps7 strain secreting MRPs. The gene discussed is MRPS7; the disease is infectious meningitis.