This study investigates the microbiological conditions of large game animal carcasses following evisceration. Carcasses of animals (N=291) hunted in the Upper Susa Valley (Italian Alps) were analysed for pH, Aerobic Viable Count (AVC), Enterobacteriaceae, Yersinia spp., Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp. After shooting, evisceration occurred within 60 min in 90.7% of animals and samplin...

A new differential and selective medium, DYS agar, was developed and evaluated from the isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica. Ther bile salts content of the medium resulted in high selectivity, and inclusion of arabinose, lysine, and arginine rendered Y. Enterocolitica very distinct from Proteus spp., Pseudomonas spp., and other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. DYS medium was more effi...

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, employs its type III secretion system to inject toxins into target cells, a crucial step in infection establishment. LcrV is an essential component of the T3SS of Yersinia spp, and is able to associate at the tip of the secretion needle and take part in the translocation of anti-host effector proteins into the eukaryotic cell cytoplasm. Up...

1. Czerkies M, Raczkowska A, Brzostek K. Quo vadis Yersinia pestis? Ewolucja patogennych gatunków z rodzaju Yersinia. Post Mikrobiol. 2009; 48(3): 181-196. Google Scholar

background: disease transmission by rats and mice is a worldwide problem of big cities, which is important economically and also a significant health problem. this study was carried out to identify bacterial species find out antibiotic resistance of isolated bacteria in local rat's population in lahijan - iran. methods: cluster random sampling design was used to study  a total sample of 100 rod...

To the Editor: Bartonella spp. are gram-negative alphaproteobacte-ria that are transmitted between the reservoir and mammal host by he-matophagous insects (1). The genus Yersinia comprises 11 species, of which Y. pestis is the causative agent of plague, a deadly rodent-associated, fleaborne zoonosis (2). Despite the large number of plague cases reported in humans and the large amount of data ab...

Background:Yersinia is a genus in the family Enterobacteriaceae that its species includeYersinia enterocolitica, Yersinia intermedia, Yersinia frederiksenii, and Yersinia kristensenii. Among these species, Yersinia enterocolitica is the most important one that causes various diseases such as gastroenteritis, mesenteric lymph...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and characteristics of selected enteric pathogens in diarrheic children in six counties of the island of Trinidad. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from April 1998 through March 2000. Fecal or rectal swab specimens from children (<12 years) were collected and then processed, using standard methods, to detect Salmonella spp., Shigella spp.,...

The results are given of the ortho-nitrophenol test for beta-galactosidase production (ONPG test) on 588 strains of 123 aerobic species of bacteria, representing 30 genera. Apart from some strains of Erwinia herbicola (synonym Chromobacterium typhiflavum) and of Yersinia spp, these strains were not members of the Enterobacteriaceae, in which family the ONPG test is widely used and well document...