title: Acute yersiniosis and its surgical significance.
abstract: During early 1982, an outbreak of yersiniosis occurred in northern Mississippi. Abdominal pain suggestive of appendicitis was a common manifestation, but laparotomy revealed mesenteric adenitis. Yersinia enteritis should enter the differential diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007813:Laparotomy; D008640:Mesenteric Lymphadenitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica