YERSININ ENTEROCOLITICA SEROTYPE O-8 SEPTICEMIA IN AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY ADULT - ANALYSIS OF CHROMOSOME DNA PATTERN BY PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS

Authors
HOSAKA S UCHIYAMA M ISHIKAWA M AKAHOSHI T KONDO H SHIMAUCHI C SASAHARA T INOUE M
Citation
S. Hosaka et al., YERSININ ENTEROCOLITICA SEROTYPE O-8 SEPTICEMIA IN AN OTHERWISE HEALTHY ADULT - ANALYSIS OF CHROMOSOME DNA PATTERN BY PULSED-FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS, Journal of clinical microbiology, 35(12), 1997, pp. 3346-3347
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
Journal of clinical microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00951137
Volume
35
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
3346 - 3347
Database
ISI
SICI code
0095-1137(1997)35:12<3346:YESOSI>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
We report the first case of blood culture-positive Yersinia enterocoli tica serotype O:8 septicemia in Japan. Y. enterocolitica serotype O:8 infection is very rare, but chromosomal DNA analysis suggested that th is bacterium may persist latently in healthy carriers throughout Japan .