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yersinia Bacteriol.|jɜːˈsɪnɪə|
Also Yersinia. Pl. -ae.
[mod.L. (J. J. Van Loghem 1944, in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek X. 15), f. the name of A. E. J. Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss-born French bacteriologist + -ia1.]
A bacterium of the genus Yersinia (formerly included in Pasteurella), which includes Gram-negative rods that are facultative anærobes present in many animals causing plague and yersiniosis in man.
1967Acta Path. & Microbiol. Scand. LXXI. 384 Morphologically, they were fairly easy to distinguish from Yersinia. 1982E. A. Gorzynski in Milgrom & Flanagan Med. Microbiol. xxi. 316/1 Yersiniae are facultative intracellular parasites. 1983McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 482/1 Once isolation of a suspect yersinia has been accomplished, the biochemical identification ensues more logically.
Hence yersiniˈosis [-osis], infection with or a disease caused by yersiniæ (other than Y. pestis, the cause of plague), which in man is self-limiting and usu. marked by lymphadenitis of the mesentery and ileitis or by enteritis and occurs chiefly in children and young adults.
1971Country Life 2 Dec. 1530/1 In older leverets, parasitism may be the main problem, and in adults yersiniosis, formerly called pseudotuberculosis, a bacterial disease occurring in either the acute or chronic form, appears to be a common cause of death. 1983Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 Aug. 593/1 A large outbreak of yersiniosis in 1980 in a boys' school in Dorset was attributed to contact with a pig kept on the school farm. |