This virus is in the same group of pest viruses as the virus of swine fever (hog cholera). (microgeninc.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)
Species1
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)
Japan2
The original isolations of the virus were made in the 1950s from mice that had been inoculated for diagnostic purposes using specimens from: (a) human infants with "newborn pneumonitis" in Japan, (b) swine with an influenza-like disease in Japan, or (c) humans with influenza in Russia. (nih.gov)
[ 7 ] of Y pseudotuberculosis in Russia and Japan that demonstrate mitogen A, which acts as a superantigen. (medscape.com)
Human1
the co-infection Mycobacterium bovis/Mycobacterium avium found in a poultry farmer was the first such co-infection in Chad related to human tuberculosis. (panafrican-med-journal.com)