PMID: 6969931Jan 1, 1980Paper

Yersinia enterocolitica infections and rheumatic diseases

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
J H Larsen

Abstract

Yersinia enterocolitica (Y. ent.) infections are rather frequently complicated by acute reactive inflammation in the connective tissue, especially in the joints. At this stage of the disease the specific diagnosis can be obtained either by bacterial isolation and identification from the feces and/or mesenterial lymph nodes, or by serological methods. Serodiagnostics are frequently the only method during the complication phase, since the bacteria have often disappeared from the feces by this stage of the disease. Specific Y. ent. serodiagnostics are benefitted by the fact that no antisera cross-react with the serotype 3 thermostable O-antigen. A titre of greater than or equal to 80 is therefore highly indicative of a recent or current Y. ent. infection. In the absence of other known arthritogenic agents the Y. ent. antibodies are highly indicative of the Y. ent. etiology of a current disease. The Y. ent. complications affect most inflammatory reactive diseases, acute as well as chronic. In an area in which Y. ent. infections are endemic, Y. ent. is the most frequent cause of acute and chronic arthritis. The present results indicate that not all cases of acute Y. ent. arthritis remit, but some persist, usually with an intermitten...Continue Reading

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