A Microagglutination Test for Yersinia Enterocolitica Infection: Recognition of Multiple Serotypes in Experiments with Stained Suspensions Of Serotype O5,27

Identification of pathogenic serotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica.

Infection caused by Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:21.

Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:21, biotype 3 (Wauters) was isolated from the appendix and stool of a 7-year-old girl. The same organism was later isolated in pure culture from pus from a postoperative wound infection in this patient. She developed a significant serological response (titer of 800). There was thus strong clinical evidence of pathogenicity associated with this rather uncommon ...

Recognition of Yersinia enterocolitica multiple strain infection in twin infants using PCR-based DNA fingerprinting.

AIMS Yersinia enterocolitica causes several syndromes in humans. The most common presentation is enterocolitis in children, presenting as fever and diarrhoea. A Y. enterocolitica multiple strain infection in twin infants was investigated. METHODS AND RESULTS One isolate was recovered from one patient and two morphologically-different isolates were recovered from the other infant. Biochemicall...

Yersinia enterocolitica Infection in a Vervet Monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) in Iran

  A vervet monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) housed at quarantine of Razi vaccine and serum research institute died following a few days of sickness. Multiple abscesses on the surface and inside the liver and enlargement of spleen with pinpoint white spot were the most prominent macroscopic features. We examined the organs of the dead monkey and Yersinia enterocolitica was isolated. In histopatho...

First isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8 in Japan.

A 4-year-old Japanese boy was infected with Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8, H:befiv, biotype 1B, phage type Xz, restriction endonuclease analysis of plasmid DNA type B, restriction endonuclease analysis of chromosomal DNA type 8. He presented with acute gastroenteritis with elevated body temperature (40 degrees C), rigor, and shivers. The diagnosis was septicemia. This is apparently the f...