Cat-contaminated environmental substances lead to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection in children.
A 1-year-old boy was infected with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes 1b and 3, and his 3-year-old brother was infected with Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b; both had drunk water from puddles in a garden of their housing district of Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b and 3 strains isolated from soil from the dried-up puddles and sand and feces from the sandbox proved to be from a stray cat. The restriction endonuclease patterns of the plasmid in each strain of Y. pseudotuberculosis serotypes 1b and 3 were identical. These data provide evidence for the transmission of Y. pseudotuberculosis through water, sand, and soil contaminated by feces from cats infected with this species.
Fukushima
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Public Health Institute of Shimane Prefecture, Shimane, Japan.
Gomyoda
M
M
Ishikura
S
S
Nishio
T
T
Moriki
S
S
Endo
J
J
Kaneko
S
S
Tsubokura
M
M
D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000635:transmission; D002415:Cats; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010957:Plasmids; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D014774:Virulence; D014871:Water Microbiology; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D015011:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity; D015012:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D015047:Zoonoses
D004269:DNA, Bacterial