Yersiniosis

Under the collective name yersiniosis are summarized diseases caused by bacteria of the genus Yersinia. They can occur in humans and animals worldwide.

Enteral yersiniosis is an infectious diarrheal disease with spasmodic abdominal pain and fever. It is caused by certain serotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Sources of infection may be contaminated food ( raw meat ), drinking water or pets. So also it is among the zoonoses. The proof is carried out by a microbial examination of stool sample. For the therapy of antibiotics ( tetracyclines, gyrase inhibitors ) are used. Late effects may Yersinia arthritis, be a persistent ileitis (pseudo disease) and erythema nodosum.

Because of their symptoms is also known as pseudoappendicitis yersiniosis. She falls in Germany under the notifiable diseases in suspected disease and death, the Robert Koch Institute is thus informed. In the year 2007 4.987 disease cases were reported in Germany, in 2006 there were 5,162. 2011, there were 3,500 Neuerkankungen, the incidence is about 4 per 100,000 inhabitants. Most cases can be observed in young children, geographically, especially in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony -Anhalt occurs the disease.

In the Swiss Animal Diseases Act, it is one to the list of monitored epidemic diseases.