Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia

Am J Dis Child. 1979 Jun;133(6):623-4. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130060063013.

Abstract

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia and postdiarrheal hemolytic-uremia syndrome (HUS) developed in a 15-month-old boy after he ingested unpasteurized goat's milk. The epidemiology of this organism and the disease states caused by it are discussed with the suggestion that an association between it and some cases of the HUS might be found if sought.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Ampicillin / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Gentamicins / therapeutic use
  • Goats / microbiology
  • Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / etiology*
  • Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Milk / microbiology
  • Sepsis / complications
  • Sepsis / drug therapy
  • Sepsis / microbiology*
  • Yersinia / drug effects
  • Yersinia / isolation & purification
  • Yersinia Infections* / complications
  • Yersinia Infections* / transmission

Substances

  • Gentamicins
  • Ampicillin