Disseminated Yersinia enterocolitica. Case report and review of the literature

Tripoli, L.C.; Brouillette, D.E.; Nicholas, J.J.; Van Thiel, D.H.

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology 12(1): 85-89

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0192-0790
PMID: 2406333
Document Number: 357834
Yersinia enterocolitica is an uncommon cause of infectious diarrhea in the United States. Rarely, it is a cause of extraintestinal disease. Yet an association exists between Y. enterocolitica infection and axial arthropathy. We present a patient with long-standing arthritis, consistent with incomplete Reiter's syndrome, who developed Y. enterocolitica colitis with hepatic and pulmonic infection.

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