Lucía Rivas, Hugo Strydom, Shevaun Paine, Jing Wang, Jackie Wright,
... of human cases in NZ are attributed to Yersinia enterocolitica (YE), although in 2014, a large outbreak of 220 cases was caused by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Up until 2012, the most common NZ ... investigations included insufficient sensitivity for the isolation of Yersinia spp. from foods, although foodborne transmission is the ... genome sequencing provides unprecedented discriminatory power for typing Yersinia and is now being applied to NZ epidemiological ... necessary to elucidate the routes of transmission of Yersinia and consequently inform targeted interventions for the prevention ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Pathogens
Daniela Cristiano, Maria Francesca Peruzy, Maria Aponte, Andrea Mancusi, Yolande Thérèse Rose Proroga, Federico Capuano, Nicoletta Murru,
... the consumption of food contaminated with the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica. The number of human cases and contaminated ... underestimated since conventional molecular methods currently proposed for Yersinia enterocolitica detection proved to have several limitations. Critical issues associated with the detection of Yersinia enterocolitica in meat and/or meat product has ... the possible limits of the molecular methods for Yersinia enterocolitica detection in vegetables are still lacking. According ...
Tópico(s): Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
2021 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Food Microbiology
Wieslaw Swietnicki, Waldemar Goldeman, Mateusz Psurski, Anna Nasulewicz‐Goldeman, Anna Boguszewska‐Czubara, Marek Drab, Jordan Sycz, Tomasz M. Goszczyński,
... and there is no commercial vaccine against it. Yersinia pestis is a zoonotic pathogen that is on ... studied on strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and a Yersinia pestis substitute, Yersinia enterocolitica. The representative compounds had IC50 values below ... could be a starting point towards novel anti-Yersinia drugs and the strategy presented here proposes a ...
Tópico(s): Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | International Journal of Molecular Sciences
John K. Triantafillidis, Thomas Thomaidis, Αpostolos Papalois,
... could be, in fact, an infection caused by Yersinia spp., accompanied or not with CD, which could ... diagnosed with the identification of serum antibodies against Yersinia outer protein antigens (YOP antigens). Since Yersiniosis is ... usually checked for the possibility of contamination by Yersinia. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the true prevalence of Yersinia infection in patients with terminal ileitis is probably ... most important data regarding the various aspects of Yersinia infection with special focus on its pathophysiology and ...
Tópico(s): Leptospirosis research and findings
2020 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | BioMed Research International
Anne‐Sophie Le Guern, Cyril Savin, Hilde Angermeier, Sylvie Brémont, Dominique Clermont, Estelle Mühle, Petya Orozova, Hristo Najdenski, Javier Pizarro‐Cerdá,
Thirty-three Yersinia strains previously characterized by the French Yersinia National Reference Laboratory (YNRL) and isolated from humans and animals were ... belong to six novel species of the genus Yersinia: Yersinia artesiana sp. nov., type strain IP42281T (=CIP ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
2020 - Microbiology Society | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY
Cecilia S.M. Lucero Estrada, Gabriela Isabel Favier, Marı́a Esther Escudero,
... at offering an overview of the prevalence of Yersinia enterocolitica and related species in San Luis, Argentina, ... and providing an analysis of the distribution of Yersinia isolates according to their isolation sources, highlighting bioserotypes ... methods and molecular techniques, 229 (5%) samples were Yersinia positive. The highest frequency of Yersinia isolates was observed in environmental specimens (14.3%), ... human (0.6%) samples. A total of 255 Yersinia isolates were characterized, including 183 Y. enterocolitica and ...
Tópico(s): Zoonotic diseases and public health
2019 - Elsevier BV | Food Microbiology
Erwin Bohn, Michael Sonnabend, Kristina Klein, Ingo B. Autenrieth,
... Gram-negative pathogens such as Salmonella, Pseudomonas or Yersinia the main targets of T3SS are leukocytes of ... between bacterial and host cells. Comprehensive studies on Yersinia pestis, Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis effector translocation show that adhesins such as Invasin (Inv), Yersinia adhesin A (YadA) and attachment and invasion locus ( ... host determine host cell specific effector translocation during Yersinia infection. However, for Shigella dysenteriae infection it was ...
Tópico(s): Escherichia coli research studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Medical Microbiology
Catherine Daniel, Amélie Dewitte, Sabine Poiret, Michaël Marceau, Michel Simonet, Laure Marceau, Guillaume Descombes, Denise Boutillier, Nadia Bennaceur, Sébastien Bontemps‐Gallo, Nadine Lemaître, Florent Sebbane,
Yersinioses caused by Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica are significant concerns in human and veterinary health. The link between virulence and the potent LcrV antigen ... s selection as a major component of anti-Yersinia vaccines. Here, we report that (i) the Y. ...
Tópico(s): Vector-borne infectious diseases
2019 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Immunology
The human and animal pathogens Yersinia pestis , which causes bubonic and pneumonic plague, and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica , which cause gastroenteritis, share a type 3 secretion ... bacterial adhesins appear to collaborate to promote neutrophil– Yersinia interactions in tissues. The ability of neutrophils to ... bacterial factors to mitigate bactericidal effects of neutrophils. Yersinia in close proximity to neutrophils has higher levels ... yop promoters, and neutrophils in close proximity to Yersinia express higher levels of pro-survival genes than ...
Tópico(s): Zoonotic diseases and public health
2019 - Faculty of 1000 | F1000Research
Cyril Savin, Alexis Criscuolo, Julien Guglielmini, Anne‐Sophie Le Guern, Élisabeth Carniel, Javier Pizarro‐Cerdá, Sylvain Brisse,
The genus Yersinia comprises species that differ widely in their pathogenic potential and public-health significance. Yersinia pestis is responsible for plague, while Yersinia enterocolitica is a prominent enteropathogen. Strains within some ... vary in their pathogenic properties. Phenotypic identification of Yersinia species is time-consuming, labour-intensive and may ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2019 - Microbiology Society | Microbial Genomics
Tomasz Wielkoszyński, Aliyeh Moghaddam, Assar Bäckman, Jessica Brodén, Rafał Piotrowski, Renata Mond-Paszek, A. A. Kozarenko, Tor Ny, Małgorzata Wilczyńska,
Yersiniosis is a foodborne infection caused by Yersinia enterocolitica or Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Although yersiniosis is most often self-limiting, some patients develop chronic infections, such as reactive arthritis, glomerulonephritis, or myocarditis, ... method for differentiation between infections with the two Yersinia species is important since antibiotic susceptibility of these ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Guillaume Le Baut, Claire O’Brien, Paul Pavli, Maryline Roy, Philippe Seksik, Xavier Tréton, Stéphane Nancey, Nicolas Barnich, Madeleine Bezault, Claire Auzolle, Dominique Cazals–Hatem, Jérôme Viala, Matthieu Allez, Jean‐Pierre Hugot, Anne Dumay,
Yersinia are common contaminants of food products, but their prevalence in the human gut is poorly documented. Yersinia have been implicated in Crohn's Disease (CD, ... main CD susceptibility variants: NOD2, ATG16L1 and IRGM. Yersinia were found in 7.7% of ileal samples ( ... resected specimens, lymph nodes and Peyer's patches. Yersinia were no more likely to be detected in ... treated with immunosuppressants were less likely to be Yersinia carriers. In conclusion, this work shows that Yersinia species are frequently found at low levels in ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Effects of Natural Compounds
2018 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Maria Fredriksson‐Ahomaa, Suvi Joutsen, Riikka Laukkanen‐Ninios,
The genus Yersinia currently includes 18 species, of which Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis are enteropathogenic. The identification of Y. enterocolitica ... recent information on the characteristics and identification of Yersinia spp. and the sources of enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. Identification of Yersinia spp. is still mainly ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Current Clinical Microbiology Reports
Xiaobing Yang, Junfeng Pan, Yao Wang, Xihui Shen,
... competition, host infection, and stress response. Three pathogenic Yersinia species, namely Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and Yersinia enterocolitica, possess different copies of ...
Tópico(s): Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
2018 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Khadigeh Sirghani, Tayebeh Zeinali, Abdollah Jamshidi,
... of the most important sources of infection of Yersinia spp. for humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the incidence of Yersinia enterocolitica in chicken meat by using culture method ... The DNA was extracted from suspected colonies of Yersinia spp. and then PCR test using specific primers for 16S rRNA gene of Yersinia enterocolitica was performed. In this study, 30% of chicken meat was contaminated with Yersinia spp. by culture method and 25% of chicken meat was contaminated with Yersinia enterocolitica . Biotyping of isolated colonies showed that all ...
Tópico(s): Zoonotic diseases and public health
2018 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal of Pathogens
Veronika Verbikova, Gabriela Bořilová, Vladimír Babák, Monika Morávková,
... for the presence of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica and other Yersinia spp. The samples were examined separately using both ... PCR (qPCR) without pre-enrichment. The prevalence of Yersinia spp. in examined samples assessed by cultivation was ... 0% (53/312), with Y. enterocolitica and other Yersinia spp. comprising 5.8% (18/312) and 11. ... O:5. QPCR results confirmed the presence of Yersinia spp. and pathogenic Y. enterocolitica (carrying the ail ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2017 - Elsevier BV | Food Control
Lieze Rouffaer, Diederik Strubbe, Aimeric Teyssier, Noraine Salleh Hudin, Anne‐Marie Van den Abeele, Ivo Cox, Roel Haesendonck, Michel Delmée, Freddy Haesebrouck, Frank Pasmans, Luc Lens, An Martel,
... health, we use house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and Yersinia spp. (pathogenic for passerines) as a case study. ... PCR methods for detecting the presence of different Yersinia species. Yersinia spp. were recovered from 57.43% of the ... identified as Y. pseudotuberculosis, Y. enterocolitica and other Yersinia species, respectively. Presence of Yersinia was related to the degree of urbanization, average ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Vectors
2017 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Suvi Joutsen, Riikka Laukkanen‐Ninios, Heikki Henttonen, Jukka Niemimaa, Liina Voutilainen, Eva R. Kallio, Heikki Helle, Hannu Korkeala, Maria Fredriksson‐Ahomaa,
Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis are important zoonotic bacteria causing human enteric yersiniosis commonly reported in Europe. All Y. pseudotuberculosis strains are considered ... wild small mammals as a reservoir of enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. is still obscure. In this study, the presence of Yersinia spp. was examined from 1840 wild small mammals, ...
Tópico(s): Vector-borne infectious diseases
2017 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Taylor J. Schoberle, Lawton K. Chung, Joseph B. McPhee, Ben Bogin, James B. Bliska,
ABSTRACT Pathogenic Yersinia species utilize a type III secretion system to translocate Yop effectors into infected host cells. Yop effectors inhibit innate immune responses in infected macrophages to promote Yersinia pathogenesis. In turn, Yersinia- infected macrophages respond to translocation of Yops by ... In macrophages activated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) prior to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection, caspase-1 is activated by a ... the yopJ , yopM , and yopJ yopM mutants of Yersinia pestis . Following intravenous infection of mice, the Y. ...
Tópico(s): Vibrio bacteria research studies
2016 - American Society for Microbiology | Infection and Immunity
Shi Tan, Irene Kit Ping Tan, Mui Fern Tan, Avirup Dutta, Siew Woh Choo,
On record, there are 17 species in the Yersinia genus, of which three are known to be ... events that led to the emergence of pathogenic Yersinia species by analyzing gene gain-and-loss, virulence ... most recent ancestor shared by the human pathogenic Yersinia was most probably an environmental species that had ... might have led to ecological specialization that diverged Yersinia into ecotypes and distinct lineages based on differential ... Hence, we postulate that evolution of human pathogenic Yersinia might not be totally in parallel, but instead, ...
Tópico(s): Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... disrupt a cellular response. The three human pathogenic Yersinia spp. (Y. pestis, Y. enterocolitica, and Y. pseudotuberculosis) ... plasmid which encodes the T3SS. Translocation of the Yersinia effector proteins (YopE, YopH, YopT, YopM, YpkA/YopO, ... Over the past 25 years, studies on the Yersinia effector proteins have unveiled tremendous knowledge of how the effectors enhance Yersinia virulence. Recently, the long awaited crystal structure of ... bypass regulation by host phosphatases. In addition, novel Yersinia effector protein targets, such as caspase-1, and ...
Tópico(s): Vibrio bacteria research studies
2016 - Baishideng Publishing Group | World Journal of Biological Chemistry
Alan McNally, Nicholas R. Thomson, Sandra Reuter, Brendan W. Wren,
... perspective of pathogen evolution. Pathogenic species in the Yersinia genus have historically been targets for research aimed ... greatly accelerated the progress in this field, and Yersinia pestis, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia enterocolitica have once again acted ...
Tópico(s): Zoonotic diseases and public health
2016 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Reviews Microbiology
Halie K. Miller, Leah Schwiesow, Winnie Au‐Yeung, Victoria Auerbuch,
... predisposes humans to serious disseminated infection with pathogenic Yersinia as well as several other pathogens. Recently, we ... T3SS master regulator LcrF. In E. coli and Yersinia, IscR levels are predicted to be regulated by ... humans with HH to disseminated infection with enteropathogenic Yersinia. Importantly, HH mice orally infected with Y. pseudotuberculosis ... from Hfe (C282Y∕C282Y) mice were defective in Yersinia uptake compared to wildtype macrophages, indicating that the anti-phagocytic property of the Yersinia T3SS plays a less important role in HH ...
Tópico(s): Trace Elements in Health
2016 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Huijing Hao, Junrong Liang, Ran Duan, Yuhuang Chen, Chang Liu, Yuchun Xiao, Xu Li, Mingming Su, Huaiqi Jing, Xin Wang,
... Enterobacteriaceae identification, is not sufficient to discriminate some Yersinia species for some unstable biochemical reactions and the ... biochemical profile presented in some species, e.g. Yersinia ferderiksenii and Yersinia intermedia, which need a variety of molecular biology ... selected five 16S rRNA gene clones from 768 Yersinia strains, and collected 3,840 sequences of the ... identify by biochemical phenotype can be differentiated. Most Yersinia strains form distinct groups within each species. However ...
Tópico(s): Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
2016 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Riikka Keto‐Timonen, Nina Hietala, Eveliina Palonen, Anna Hakakorpi, Miia Lindström, Hannu Korkeala,
... in stress tolerance of bacteria than previously assumed. Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis are enteropathogens that can spread through foodstuffs and cause an enteric infection called yersiniosis. Enteropathogenic Yersinia are psychrotrophs that are able to grow at ... industry. To be able to efficiently control psychrotrophic Yersinia during food production and storage, it is essential ... roles of Csps in stress response of enteropathogenic Yersinia.
Tópico(s): Vibrio bacteria research studies
2016 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Microbiology
Inge Van Damme, Dirk Berkvens, Gerty Vanantwerpen, Julie Baré, Kurt Houf, G. Wauters, Lieven De Zutter,
... undertaken to determine the overall prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. in the tonsils, feces and on carcasses of pigs at slaughter. Moreover, factors associated with Yersinia contamination of freshly eviscerated pig carcasses were studied. Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3 was isolated from the ... majority of the carcass samples (97.0%) had Yersinia concentrations below the detection limit of enumeration (<1. ... hygienic instructions may diminish carcass contamination with enteropathogenic Yersinia.
Tópico(s): Zoonotic diseases and public health
2015 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Food Microbiology
... products have been examined for the presence of Yersinia spp. using the ISO 10273 and the cold enrichment method. The overall prevalence of Yersinia spp. was 84 (28%). Yersinia enterocolitica was isolated from 18 (6%) of the ...
Tópico(s): Bee Products Chemical Analysis
2015 - Wiley | Journal of Food Science