| Species/Subspecies: | Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | ||||||||
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| Categories: | Zoonotic; motile | ||||||||
| Etymology: | Genus name: named after the French bacteriologist A.J.E. Yersin, who in 1894 first isoleted the bacterium which causes the plague. Species epithet: from false tuberculosis. | ||||||||
| Significance: | [Important] | ||||||||
| Taxonomy: | Class Gammaproteobacteria Order Enterobacteriales Family Enterobacteriaceae Genus Yersinia |
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| Type Strain: | ATCC 29833 = CCUG 5855 = NCTC 10275 | ||||||||
| Macromorphology (smell): | |||||||||
| Micromorphology: | Motile rods with peritrichous flagella | ||||||||
| Gram +/Gram -: | G- | ||||||||
| Metabolism: | Facultatively anaerobic | ||||||||
| Catalase/Oxidase: | +/- | ||||||||
| Other Enzymes: | Tryptophanase - and urease + | ||||||||
| Fermentation of carbohydrates: | Glucose(gas) -, Mannitol +, Rhamnose +, Sorbitol + and Sucrose -. Cf. other Yersinia spp. | ||||||||
| Spec. Char.: | |||||||||
| Disease: | Animals: pseudotuberculosis.
Man: Food poisoning |
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| Hosts: | Rodents, deer, cattle, sheep, goat, pig, cage birds, man | ||||||||
| Clinical Picture: | Animals: Tuberculosis-like symptoms. Localized tissue necrosis and granulomas in the spleen, liver, and lymph node.
Man: Abdominal pain and fever. | ||||||||
| Virulence Factors: | The virulence plasmid common to pathogenic Yersinia species encodes a number of secreted proteins denoted Yops (Yersinia outer proteins). A novel plasmid-encoded virulence determinant of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, YopK has recently been identified. | ||||||||
| Genome Sequence: |
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| Taxonomy/phylogeny:
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Within the genus Yersinia, 20 species have been described. All species belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae. | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2020-10-28 |