Review Article
Yersinia enterocolitica: Epidemiological Studies and Outbreaks
Table 2
Detection of pathogenic
Y. enterocolitica in pork products by culture methods (partially adapted from Fredriksson-and Korkeala [
11]).
| Sample |
No. of samples | No. of samples positive for |
Country of origin of sample |
Reference | O:3 | O:5,27 | O:8 | O:9 |
| Tongue | 302 | 165 | | | 3 | Belgium | Wauters [37] | | 37 | 11 | | | | Canada | Schiemann [38] | | 31 | 2 | | 6 | | USA | Doyle et al. [39] | | 47 | 26 | | | | Norway | Nesbakken [40] | | 50 | 20 | | | | Japan | Shiozawa et al. [41] | | 125 | 8 | | | | Spain | Ferrer et al. [42] | | 29 | 28 | | | | Belgium | Wauters et al. [43] | | 40 | 6 | | | 2 | The Netherlands | de Boer and Nouws [44] | | 55 | 14 | | | | Germany | Karib and Seeger [45] | | 86 | 2 | | | | Italy | de Guisti et al. [46] | | 99 | 79 | | | | Finland | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [47] | | 20 | 15 | | | | Germany | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [48] |
| Tonsil | 89 | 81 | | | 8 | Belgium | Martínez et al. [24] | | 137 | 136 | 1 | | | Italy | Martínez et al. [24] | | 185 | 185 | | | | Spain | Martínez et al. [24] | | 212 | 69 | 6 | | 1 | Switzerland | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [26] |
| Offala | 34 | 17 | | | | Finland | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [36] | | 16 | 5 | | | | Finland | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [47] | | 100 | 46 | | | | Germany | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [48] |
| Porkb | 91 | 1 | | 1 | | Canada | Schiemann [38] | | 127 | 1 | | | | Norway | Nesbakken et al. [49] | | 70 | 22 | | | 3 | Japan | Shiozawa et al. [41] | | 267 | 6 | | | | Denmark | Christensen [50] | | 50 | 12 | | | | Belgium | Wauters et al. [43] | | 400 | 3 | | | 1 | The Netherlands | de Boer and Nouws [44] | | 45 | 8 | | | | Norway | Nesbakken et al. [51] | | 67 | 1 | 8c | 3 | | China | Tsai and Chen [52] | | 48 | 1 | | | 1 | Germany | Karib and Seeger [45] | | 40 | 2 | 4 | | 1 | Ireland | Logue et al. [53] | | 1278 | 64 | 14 | | | Japan | Fukushima et al. [54] | | 255 | 4 | | | | Finland | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [55] | | 300 | 6 | | | | Norway | Johannessen et al. [30] | | 120 | 14 | | | | Germany | Fredriksson-Ahomaa et al. [36] | | 60 | | | | 20 | Norway | Grahek-Ogden et al. [32] |
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aOffal, excluding tongue, bother pork products, excluding offal, cisolates belonging to serotype O:5 and showing autoagglutination activity and calcium-dependent growth.
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