In the spring of 2015, we experienced a cluster of 4 sporadic cases of yersiniosis in children in Nagano prefecture, a rural area of Japan. Two patients developed appendicitis-like episodes; one had acute gastroenteritis, and the other had bacteremia associated with liver abscess. The causative agent of these infections was Yersinia enterocolitica serogroup O:8. None of the patients had an underlying illness, and all have recovered completely. The patients were neither socially nor geographically related to each other. These 4 consecutive cases suggest that Y. enterocolitica O:8 has spread substantially in the middle part of Japan, and that this virulent strain might be more common than previously reported in our country.
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Minami, K., Yasuda, R., Terakawa, R., Koike, Y., Takeuchi, K., Higuchi, T., … Kawakami, Y. (2017). Four sporadic pediatric cases of Yersinia enterocolitica o:8 infection in a rural area of Japan. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 70(2), 192–194. https://doi.org/10.7883/yoken.JJID.2016.039
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