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Yersinia enterocolitica infection
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Gram negative, facultatively anaerobic bacteria causing acute gastroenteritis and mesenteric lymphadenitis in children, and arthritis, septicemia, and erythema nodosum in adults. Transmitted through food, water, and person-to-person contact. Usual course - acute.







CAUSES:
•contaminated food ingestion

TREATMENT

• streptomycin
• gentamicin
• tetracycline
• chloramphenicol
• trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole
• fluid replacement

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