Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Yersinia scanned with electron micrograph
SpecialtyInfectious disease

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Yersiniaceae
Genus: Yersinia
Species:
Y. pseudotuberculosis
Binomial name
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
(Pfeiffer 1889)
Smith & Thal 1965

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Far East scarlet-like fever in humans, who occasionally get infected zoonotically, most often through the food-borne route.[1] Animals are also infected by Y. pseudotuberculosis. The bacterium is urease positive.

  1. ^ Ryan KJ; Ray CG, eds. (2004). Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.). McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-8385-8529-0.