Abstract
Human infections with Yersinia were first recognized and reported in upper New York State almost forty years ago. Little attention was paid to these reports and few efforts made to identify these organisms in the United States since that time. Recently, there have been increasing numbers of reports from Scandinavia of episodes of polyarthritis associated with Yersinia infections.
The patient to be presented is a six-month old girl transferred from an upstate New York hospital because of two weeks of fever to 104°, green watery diarrhea and irritability noted when she was handled. An evanescent rash was most apparent at times of temperature elevations. Her mother and father had had diarrhea during the month preceding the child's illness.
Stool cultures were grown with an effort to identifying Yersinia enterocolitica if it was present and the organism was found. Confirmation of this identification was afforded by the Plague Research Center of the United States Public Health Service where over the next month a rise in serum agglutination titer against polyvalent Y. enterocolitica was demonstrated from zero to 1:256 dilutions.
The clinical spectrum of disease so far known to be associated with these organisms will be discussed and the necessity for special culture techniques emphasized.
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Jacobs, J., Behrman, R. YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA ARTHRITIS. Pediatr Res 8, 426 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197404000-00518
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-197404000-00518