• Although Y. pseudotuberculosis is usually only able to colonize hosts by peripheral routes and cause serious disease in immunocompromised individuals, if this bacterium gains access to the blood stream, it has an LD50 comparable to Y. pestis at only 10 CFU. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because of its 97% DNA homology with the agent that causes plague , Yersinia pestis, Y pseudotuberculosis is believed to have been the progenitor of the plague bacillus and is considered a model of bacterial evolution. (medscape.com)
  • Yersinia pestis biofilms. (microbiologyresearch.org)
  • The team headed to Madagascar to boost diagnostic capabilities in the field, and they worked with colleagues from the Institut Pasteur de Madagascar to characterize the Yersinia pestis strains responsible for the outbreak. (pasteur.fr)
  • In humans, Yersinia pestis causes plague and Yersinia enterocolitica causes yersiniosis. (bmj.com)
  • Em seres humanos, a Yersinia pestis causa a peste, e a Yersinia enterocolitica causa a yersiniose. (bmj.com)
  • Yersinia pestis , the causative agent of bubonic and pneumonic plagues, has undergone detailed study at the molecular level. (asm.org)
  • We compare all five currently sequenced Y. pestis genomes and the corresponding features in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis . (asm.org)
  • The causative agent, Yersinia pestis , primarily infects a wide range of rodents and is transmitted via flea vectors. (asm.org)
  • It was shown that Y. pestis recently diverged from Yersinia pseudotuberculosis , an enteropathogen, and likely comprises a clonal lineage ( 1 , 3 , 37 , 40 ). (asm.org)
  • We have also demonstrated that these receptors are recognizing Yersinia pestis , which is the plague bacterium. (livescience.com)
  • Analysis revealed that both had died of the plague - caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis - and that the same strain had infected them. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • A 1999 paper used a genetic analysis to conclude that Y. pestis had evolved from a related bacterium, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis , between 1500 and 20,000 years ago. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Persons exposed to plague patients who have pneumonia or to Yersinia pestis *** aerosols in the laboratory should be given a 7- to 10-day course of antimicrobic therapy regardless of vaccination history. (cdc.gov)
  • The bacteria is Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis - the "young" brother of Y. Pestis (causative agent of the plague). (scienceforums.net)
  • Actually Y.pseudotuberculosis is not so dangerous as pestis but anyway the feeling is not so comfortable. (scienceforums.net)
  • Pasteurella pestis roimhe seo) a bhaineann le Yersinia pseudotuberculosis agus Yersinia enterocolitica araon. (wikipedia.org)
  • Is seadán dá óstach é Yersinia pestis , an dreancaid francaigh, ar seadán francaigh é faoi seach, mar sin is hipearparaisít é Y. pestis . (wikipedia.org)
  • Yersinia pestis and often involving the lymph nodes and/or lungs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The disease is caused by the plague bacillus, rod-shaped bacteria referred to as Yersinia pestis . (medscape.com)
  • It can harbor fleas infected with Yersinia pestis, the plague bacillus. (medscape.com)
  • In humans, symptoms of Far East scarlet-like fever are similar to those of infection with Yersinia enterocolitica (fever and right-sided abdominal pain), except that the diarrheal component is often absent, which sometimes makes the resulting condition difficult to diagnose. (wikipedia.org)
  • Along with the more common Yersinia enterocolitica , it can cause gastrointestinal infection in various wild and domestic animals. (medscape.com)
  • We report a case of reactive polyarthritis in which serological evidence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection was found in the absence of the other common precipitating organisms, such as Chlamydia spp, Klebsiella spp, Shigella spp, Campylobacter spp, or Yersinia enterocolitica. (bmj.com)
  • Y enterocolitica and Y pseudotuberculosis are mainly acquired by consuming contaminated food and water. (bmj.com)
  • A Y enterocolitica e a Y pseudotuberculosis são adquiridas principalmente pelo consumo de água e comida contaminadas. (bmj.com)
  • Antibodies to Y. enterocolitica were raised for rapid Yersinia detection in the stool. (who.int)
  • 3 isolates were identified as Y. enterocolitica and 1 was Y. pseudotuberculosis. (who.int)
  • Des anticorps anti-Y enterocolitica ont été cultivés afin de permettre la détection rapide de Yersinia dans les selles. (who.int)
  • Y. enterocolitica a été identifiée dans 3 cas et Y. pseudotuberculosis dans 1. (who.int)
  • Y. pseudotuberculosis et Salmonella typhi ou S. paratyphi B, et entre Y. enterocolitica et Brucella a été détectée sérologiquement. (who.int)
  • Y. pseudotuberculosis infections can mimic appendicitis, especially in children and younger adults, and, in rare cases, the disease may cause skin complaints (erythema nodosum), joint stiffness and pain (reactive arthritis), or spread of bacteria to the blood (bacteremia). (wikipedia.org)
  • Superantigens, bacterial adhesions, and the actions of Yops (which are bacterial proteins once thought to be "Yersinia outer membrane proteins") that are encoded on the "[plasmid] for Yersinia virulence" - commonly known as the pYV - cause host pathogenesis and allow the bacteria to live parasitically. (wikipedia.org)
  • We report that larvae of the wax moth ( Galleria mellonella ) are susceptible to infection with the human enteropathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis at 37 °C. Confocal microscopy demonstrated that in the initial stages of infection the bacteria were taken up into haemocytes. (microbiologyresearch.org)
  • Does anyone know a antibody for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis or a polyclonal antibody for all Yersinia bacteria? (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • Infections with bacteria of the species YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS. (ucdenver.edu)
  • Pseudotuberculosis is an infection caused by the bacteria Yersinia pseudotuberculosis , which is transmitted through contact with food, bedding, and other material that is contaminated with feces of wild birds or rodents. (hamstercaretip.com)
  • Hamsters are exposed to the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis bacteria, which is responsible for pseudotuberculosis, when the feces of infected wild birds or rodents get into their food or drinking water. (hamstercaretip.com)
  • Yersinia is named in honor of Alexander Yersin, who successfully isolated the bacteria in 1894 during the pandemic that began in China in the 1860s. (medscape.com)
  • Moreover, these infections the survival of Yersinia and other bacteria show a modest predilection for males, with in cold enrichment. (who.int)
  • The recently described syndrome "Izumi-fever" has been linked to infection with Y. pseudotuberculosis. (wikipedia.org)
  • The symptoms of fever and abdominal pain mimicking appendicitis (actually from mesenteric lymphadenitis) associated with Y. pseudotuberculosis infection are not typical of the diarrhea and vomiting from classical food poisoning incidents. (wikipedia.org)
  • Y pseudotuberculosis infection occurs worldwide but appears to be most common as sporadic disease in northern Europe and Asia, primarily as a zoonotic infection of rabbits and other mammals and birds. (medscape.com)
  • The most common clinical Y pseudotuberculosis syndromes are self-limited enterocolitis and mesenteric lymphadenitis (pseudoappendicitis), but septicemia may occur in immunocompromised hosts, resulting in metastatic infection. (medscape.com)
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection as a cause of reactive arthritis as seen in a genitourinary clinic: case report. (bmj.com)
  • The complemented mutant regained all phenotypic properties associated with SodC, confirming the important role of this metalloenzyme in two Y. pseudotuberculosis infection models. (microbiologyresearch.org)
  • The iron overload disorder hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) predisposes humans to serious disseminated infection with pathogenic Yersinia as well as several other pathogens. (escholarship.org)
  • Hjv (-∕-) and Hfe (C282Y∕C282Y) transgenic mice displayed enhanced colonization of deep tissues by Y. pseudotuberculosis following oral inoculation, recapitulating enhanced susceptibility of humans with HH to disseminated infection with enteropathogenic Yersinia. (escholarship.org)
  • A special form of Y pseudotuberculosis infection called Far East scarlet-like fever (FESLF) has been described in association with specific strains[7] of Y pseudotuberculosis in Russia and Japan that demonstrate mitogen A, which acts as a superantigen. (medscape.com)
  • Yersinia infection can cause plague or yersiniosis, both of which are notifiable conditions. (bmj.com)
  • Infection with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is uncommon and causes similar symptoms to yersiniosis. (bmj.com)
  • Notably, CARD19 deficiency results in increased susceptibility tooral infection by Y. pseudotuberculosis further supporting the role of cell death in response to Yersinia infectionas a key host immune protective mechanism. (usda.gov)
  • Our central hypothesis isthat Yersinia infection promotes cell death via oligomerization of CARD19 and disruption of mitochondrialfunction. (usda.gov)
  • In addition to extreme weight loss with persistent diarrhea and swollen lymph nodes in the neck or shoulder, the pseudotuberculosis infection may eventually spread to hamster's the bloodstream, which is fatal. (hamstercaretip.com)
  • It can be associated with postinfectious complications such as erythema nodosum and reactive arthritis , and strains of Y pseudotuberculosis found in Asia appear to produce a superantigen-associated toxic erythema illness suggestive of scarlet fever. (medscape.com)
  • To aid in the development of detection assays and aid further phylogenetic elucidation, we sequenced and assembled the complete genomes of 32 strains (across 9 Yersinia species). (nau.edu)
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (ucdenver.edu)
  • This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections" by people in this website by year, and whether "Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections" was a major or minor topic of these publications. (ucdenver.edu)
  • Below are the most recent publications written about "Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections" by people in Profiles. (ucdenver.edu)
  • Today at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, his research on plague and other Yersinia infections follows on from the work of his predecessors and also explores the history of deadly epidemics of the past. (pasteur.fr)
  • Serious Infections: Cases of mucormycosis and Yersinia infections, some fatal, have occurred. (nih.gov)
  • Even adjusting for underreporting and difficulty in microbiological isolation, Y pseudotuberculosis appears to be a relatively rare pathogen in humans. (medscape.com)
  • Three studies have shown that this bacterium emerged from the gut pathogen Yersinia pseudotuberculosis shortly after the first epidemic. (medscape.com)
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Far East scarlet-like fever in humans, who occasionally get infected zoonotically, most often through the food-borne route. (wikipedia.org)
  • First isolated in 1883 , Y pseudotuberculosis is a gram-negative bacterium that belongs to the genus Yersinia in the Enterobacteriaceae family. (medscape.com)
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a cold-tolerant bacterial species in the family Enterobacteriaceae that most commonly causes foodborne illness, typically enterocolitis or mesenteric lymphadenitis (pseudoappendicitis) in children. (medscape.com)
  • The pathogenic Yersinia species possess a wide range of chromosomal and plasmid-derived virulence factors, which allow entry, adherence, invasion, dissemination, and release from the host. (medscape.com)
  • The plague appears to have diverged from Y. pseudotuberculosis relatively recently - about 1,500 to 20,000 years ago, and shortly before the first historically recorded outbreaks in humans. (wikipedia.org)
  • The essential oil of H. splendens showed antibacterial activities against Escherichia coli, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Bacillus cereus, Mycobacterium smegmatis, and the fungus Candida albicans with minimum inhibition concentrations in the range of 428--857 \mu g/mL, respectively. (tubitak.gov.tr)
  • Yersiniosis is a rare disease in Muslim of Yersinia from the stool samples only to countries due to the scarcity of pork con- determine the highest possible number of sumption. (who.int)
  • To evaluate the utility of this model for screening Y. pseudotuberculosis mutants we constructed and tested a superoxide dismutase C ( sodC ) mutant. (microbiologyresearch.org)
  • In fact, because pseudotuberculosis is highly contagious and can spread to humans, your veterinarian may recommend euthanizing an infected hamster. (hamstercaretip.com)
  • Y pseudotuberculosis is associated with postinfectious complications such as erythema nodosum, reactive arthritis, iritis , and glomerulonephritis. (medscape.com)
  • F (from 2014) came from a patient who showed typical signs ar East scarlet-like fever (FESLF), a rare and poorly of FESLF, including a cyclic course, fever, and "raspberry studied disease caused by Yersinia pseudotubercu- tongue. (cdc.gov)
  • Histonet] IHC detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • I would like to make an IHC detection of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • In three types of lytic Yersiniae bacteriophages are used for diagnostic purposes, which differ in specificity, virulence, and morphological features. (iimmun.ru)
  • cells with different LPS structure and preparations of three bacteriophages Pokrovskayas phage, dHerelles phage (also named as the pseudotuberculosis phage) and the phage L-413C were used. (iimmun.ru)
  • [ 9 ] More optimistically, a specific strain of Y pseudotuberculosis, IP32953, has been modified into a potentially promising vaccine against bubonic and pneumonic plague. (medscape.com)
  • In 2017, Javier became Head of the Yersinia Unit and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Plague, where his teams work on bubonic and pneumonic plague. (pasteur.fr)
  • Consistent with previous reports using monocytes from HH vs. healthy donors, macrophages isolated from Hfe (C282Y∕C282Y) mice were defective in Yersinia uptake compared to wildtype macrophages, indicating that the anti-phagocytic property of the Yersinia T3SS plays a less important role in HH animals. (escholarship.org)
  • Importantly, HH mice orally infected with Y. pseudotuberculosis lacking the T3SS-encoding virulence plasmid, pYV, displayed increased deep tissue colonization relative to wildtype mice. (escholarship.org)
  • ABSTRACT All 250 children presenting with diarrhoea at 2 teaching hospitals in Mosul, Iraq over a 9-month period were studied for the presence of Yersinia spp. (who.int)
  • An outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in New Zealand caught the interest of healthcare providers this month. (medscape.com)
  • In animals, Y. pseudotuberculosis can cause tuberculosis-like symptoms, including localized tissue necrosis and granulomas in the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes. (wikipedia.org)
  • [ 7 ] of Y pseudotuberculosis in Russia and Japan that demonstrate mitogen A, which acts as a superantigen. (medscape.com)
  • You're a professional senior scientist with a PhD in some flavor of chemistry or biology and you stopped off on your way to the doctor to ask on an online forum whether Yersinia Pseudotuberculosis could be fatal if swallowed? (scienceforums.net)
  • Y pseudotuberculosis appears to be cold tolerant, allowing transmission via contaminated cold-stored foods, handling of infected animal tissues, and cross-contamination during food preparation. (medscape.com)
  • Y. pseudotuberculosis rarely is a reported cause of gastroenteritis and pseudoappendicitis in the United States, but recent epidemiological studies suggest that it may be an underdiagnosed cause of this illness. (medscape.com)
  • Physicians should maintain awareness of Y. pseudotuberculosis as a potential cause of gastroenteritis and pseudoappendicitis and know which diagnostic tests to order. (medscape.com)
  • Many Y pseudotuberculosis outbreaks have occurred in zoos, animal-holding areas, and laboratory facilities. (medscape.com)
  • To investigate how host iron overload influences Y. pseudotuberculosis virulence and the requirement for the Ysc type III secretion system (T3SS), we utilized two distinct murine models of HH: hemojuvelin knockout mice that mimic severe, early-onset HH as well as mice with the Hfe (C282Y∕C282Y) mutation carried by 10% of people of Northern European descent, associated with adult-onset HH. (escholarship.org)
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (Yp)blocks NF-?B and MAPK signaling and interferes with inflammatory gene expression but also inducesapoptosis in innate immune cells. (usda.gov)
  • Unfortunately, pseudotuberculosis usually leads to blood poisoning in hamsters. (hamstercaretip.com)
  • Animals are also infected by Y. pseudotuberculosis. (wikipedia.org)
  • Y pseudotuberculosis is common in wild animals and pork and may be transmitted by cross-contamination during food preparation. (medscape.com)