Axillary abscess due to Yersinia enterocolitica.
Yersinia enterocolitica rarely causes extraintestinal disease. A 54-year-old construction worker with chronic hepatitis C developed an axillary abscess following an injury to his finger. An aspirate from the axillary mass grew Y. enterocolitica. Direct inoculation is proposed as the mode of transmission of this classically enteric pathogen.
Menzies
Barbara E
BE
Infectious Disease Section, S-111-ID, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S. Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108, USA. bmenzies@u.washington.edu
D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D001365:Axilla / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005383:Finger Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D015008:Yersinia enterocolitica / Q000302:isolation & purification*