title: Yersinia enterocolitica 08 "American strain" isolated in Italy.
abstract: A strain of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype 08: b,e,f,i, "American strain", was isolated from a child suffering from febrile enteritis, without any history of foreign travel. Such a strain, very uncommon in Italy, though isolated from a sick child, lacked both in vivo and in vitro virulence-associated characteristics as lethality in mice, spontaneous autoagglutination and calcium dependency, traits correlated to a lack of the virulence plasmid.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fantasia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Raballo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D014774:Virulence; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity