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. 1989 Dec;27(12):2706–2709. doi: 10.1128/jcm.27.12.2706-2709.1989

Cat-contaminated environmental substances lead to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection in children.

H Fukushima 1, M Gomyoda 1, S Ishikura 1, T Nishio 1, S Moriki 1, J Endo 1, S Kaneko 1, M Tsubokura 1
PMCID: PMC267113  PMID: 2687319

Abstract

A 1-year-old boy was infected with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes 1b and 3, and his 3-year-old brother was infected with Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b; both had drunk water from puddles in a garden of their housing district of Miyoshi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b and 3 strains isolated from soil from the dried-up puddles and sand and feces from the sandbox proved to be from a stray cat. The restriction endonuclease patterns of the plasmid in each strain of Y. pseudotuberculosis serotypes 1b and 3 were identical. These data provide evidence for the transmission of Y. pseudotuberculosis through water, sand, and soil contaminated by feces from cats infected with this species.

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