Yersinia enterocolitica: Epidemiological Studies and Outbreaks

Table 3

Epidemiological studies of human infection with Y. enterocolitica.

Year	Country	Outcome of the study	References
1981–1990	Georgia	Report of 84 clinical isolates of Y. enterocolitica, the most frequently reported serotypes were O:5; O:10,46; O:6,30	Sulakvelidze et al. [89]
1982–1991	The Netherlands	Analysis of clinical information from 261 Dutch patients with gastrointestinal infections caused by Y. enterocolitica serotypes O:3 and O:9	Stolk-Engelaar and Hoogkamp-Korstanje [90]
1982^a	Canada	Outbreak of gastroenteritis among hospitalized patients associated with Y. enterocolitica serotype O:5	Ratnam et al. [91]
1982–1985	Canada	Examination of 125 isolates of Y. enterocolitica, serotypes O:7,8; O:5; O:6,30, were frequently obtained from symptomatic patients	Noble et al. [92]
1983	Finland	Report of 46 fecal isolates of Y. enterocolitica, including two serotypes O:7; O:6, associated with occurrence	Skurnik et al. [60]
1984^a	Bangladesh	Case report of a fatal diarrheal illness associated with serotypes O:7; O:8	Butler et al. [7]
1984^a	Hong Kong	Report of Y. enterocolitica-associated septicemia in four patients regarding serotypes O:17	Seto and Lau [93]
1984-1985	UK	Report of two nosocomial outbreaks of Y. enterocolitica serotypes O:10; O:6 infections in hospitalized children	Greenwood and Hooper [94]
1986^a	UK	Case report of nosocomial transmission of serotypes O:6,30 associated with gastroenteritis	McIntyre and Nnochiri [95]
1986–1992	Canada	Report of 79 symptomatic children with culture-proven infection, including serotypes O:5; O:6,30; O:7,8	Cimolai et al. [96]
1987	UK	Report of 77 Y. enterocolitica strains from patients, including serotypes O:6,30; O:7	Greenwood and Hooper [97]
1987-1988	Australia	Report of 11 cases of Y. enterocolitica enteritis, including most frequently serotypes O:6,30	Butt et al. [98]
1987–1989	Chile	A prospective case-control study of infants with diarrhoea in Chile, showing a significantly reported serotypes O:6; O:7,8; O:7; O:10	Morris et al. [99]
1988–1991	Nigeria	Of nine strains of Y. enterocolitica obtained from stool samples of children with diarrhoea	Onyemelukwe [100]
1988–1993	New Zealand	Of 918 isolates of Y. enterocolitica from symptomatic patients	Fenwick and McCarthy [101]
1968–2000	Brazil	Of 106 strains (selected from the collection of the Yersinia Reference Laboratory in Brazil), 71 were bioserotype 4/O:3, isolated from human and animal clinical material, and 35 were of biotype 1A or 2, isolated from food	Falcão et al. [102]
2002	Iran	Report of 8 cases of Y. enterocolitica infection out of 300 children with acute diarrhoea aged 0–12 years who were attending a pediatric hospital in Tehran	Soltan-Dallal and Moezardalan [9]
2002–2004	Nigeria	Detection of Y. enterocolitica belonging to bioserotype 2/O:9 in investigating 500 human samples	Okwori et al. [10]
2004	Japan	Report of 16 cases food poisoning due to Y. enterocolitica serotype O:8	Sakai et al. [34]
2005–2006	Norway	Investigation of an outbreak involving 11 persons infected with Yersinia enterocolitica O:9	Grahek-Ogden et al. [32]
2001-2008	Germany	Almost 90% of Y. enterocolitica strains were diagnosed as serotype O:3	Rosner et al. [103]
2009^a	Iraq	Identification of three children with diarrhoea caused by Y. enterocolitica infection	Kanan and Abdulla [8]
2009	Australia	Report of 1 outbreak with 3 cases due to consumption of roast pork contaminated with Y. enterocolitica	OzFoodNet sites [104]

^aYear of publication.