title: Yersinia enterocolitica infections and chronic connective tissue diseases.
abstract: The purpose of the investigation was to evaluate a possible relationship between infection with Yersinia enterocolitica and chronic connective tissue diseases. 258 patients with a positive faeces culture in the years 1972-75 were examined in 1978 with regard to the presence of chronic connective tissue diseases. The investigation, which was carried out primarily by a questionnaire followed up by a clinical examination of "the questionnaire-positive" patients, did not reveal any causative relationship between earlier Y. enterocolitica infections and chronic connective tissue diseases.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000150:complications*