Table 1. Relevant characteristics of 27 patients with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection, France, winter 2004–05*.

Age, y	Sex	Risk factors	Main clinical signs/symptoms	Site of organism isolation	O serotype	Illness outcome
0.8	M	None	Diarrhea	Feces	I	Recovery
1	M	None	Diarrhea	Feces	III	Recovery
2	F	None	Diarrhea	Feces	I	Recovery
6	M	None	Diarrhea	Feces	I	Recovery
9	F	None	Diarrhea	Feces	I	Recovery
17	M	Multiple injuries (motorcycle accident)	Postsurgical infection†	Blood	I	Recovery
36	F	HIV infection	Diarrhea, mesenteric adenitis	Feces	I	Recovery
44	F	Bone marrow transplantation	Fever	Blood	I	Death
51	F	Sickle cell anemia, cirrhosis	Diarrhea, esophageal variceal bleeding	Blood	I	Death
59	M	Cirrhosis	Fever, esophageal variceal bleeding	Blood	I	Recovery
61	M	Therapeutic aplasia (colorectal cancer)	Fever, abdominal pain	Blood	I	Death
64	M	Abdominal aortic aneurysm	Abdominal pain	Artery biopsy	I	Recovery
65	F	Myeloma	Fever, septic shock	Blood	I	Death
70	M	Cirrhosis	Fever	Blood	I	Recovery
71	M	Unknown	Abdominal pain	Blood	NA strain	Recovery
71	M	Diabetes, steroid receipt (for retroperitoneal fibrosis)	Fever, diabetes decompensation	Blood	I	Recovery
72	M	Kidney transplantation	Fever	Blood	I	Recovery
74	M	Diabetes	Fever, abdominal pain	Blood	NS	Recovery
75	M	Viral hepatitis C infection	Fever	Blood	I	Recovery
76	M	Cirrhosis	Fever	Blood	NS	Recovery
78	M	Calcific aortic stenosis	Fever, acute heart failure	Blood	I	Recovery
78	M	Diabetes	Fever, septic shock	Blood and artery biopsy	I	Death
79	M	Metastatic colorectal cancer	Fever, respiratory distress syndrome	Blood	I	Death
80	M	Cerebrovascular accident	Fever, cardiogenic shock	Blood	NA strain	Recovery
81	F	Cirrhosis	Fever	Blood	I	Recovery
82	M	Diabetes	Fever, septic shock	Blood	NA strain	Death
83	M	Diabetes	Fever	Blood	I	Recovery

*NA, nonagglutinable; NS, not sent to Yersinia National Reference Laboratory.
 †This patient’s signs/symptoms began after hospitalization; all other patients’ signs/symptoms began before hospitalization.