title: Canadian experience with Yersinia enterocolitica (1966--1977).
abstract: Data pertaining to 1,219 cultures of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated in Canada are summarized. Of the 977 cultures isolated from humans, Y. enterocolitica serotype 0:3, biotype 4, phage type IXb was the most predominant type in Ontario, Quebec and the four Eastern Provinces. In the Western Provinces the predominant strains were indol-positive, serotypes 0:8; 5,27 and 4,32. Most of the 242 cultures of nonhuman origin, except those isolated from swine and a few isolated from wild animals, were indol-positive, biochemically atypical and serologically nontypable or belonging to different serotypes which have seldom been found in human infections.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D012703:Serotyping; D014871:Water Microbiology; D015007:Yersinia / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000382:microbiology