Yersinia-pseudotuberculosis genes

Bogdanovich, T., Camiel, E., Fukushima, H., Skumik, M. Use of O-antigen gene cluster-specific PCRs for the identification and O-genotyping of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis. J Clin Microbiol 41 (2003) 5103-5112. 

Cunneen, M.M., De Castro, C., Kenyon, J., Parrilli, M., Reeves, P.R., Molinaro, A., Holst, O., Skumik, M. The O-specific polysaccharide stmcture and biosynthetic gene cluster of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype 0 11. Carbohydr Res 344 (2009) 1533-1540. 

Pacinelli, E., Wang, L., Reeves, P.R. Relationship of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O antigens IA, IIA, and IVB the IIA gene cluster was derived from that of IVB. Infect Immun 70 (2002) 3271-3276. 

Skurnik, M., Peippo, A., Ervela, E. Characterization of the O-antigen gene clusters of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and the cryptic O-antigen gene cluster of Yersinia pestis shows that the plague bacillus is most closely related to and has evolved from Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype O lb. Mol Microbiol 37 (2000) 316-330. 

Yoshino K, Ramamurthy T, Nair GB, Fukushima H, Ohtomo Y, Takeda N, Kaneko S, Takeda T Geographical heterogeneity between Far East and Europe in prevalence of ypm gene encoding the novel superantigen among Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains. J Clin Microbiol 1995 33 3356-3358. 

Carnoy C, Floquet S, Marceau M, Sebbane F, Haentjens-Herwegh S, Devalckenaere A, Simonet M The superantigen gene ypm is located in an unstable chromosomal locus of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. JBacteriol 2002 184 4489-4499. 

Collyn F, Fukushima H, Carnoy C, Simonet M, Vincent P Linkage of the horizontally acquired ypm and pil genes in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Infect Immun 2005 73 2556-2558. 

Yersinia enterocolitica Infection with Y. enterocolitica or Y pseudotuberculosis, together with haematogenous spread, may lead to a septic-typhoid course with hepatic and splenic abscess formation. Especially ulcerative colitis was frequently found to favour the formation of multiple liver abscesses. A genetic disposition is assumed in the presence of the HLA-B 27 gene. Patients with hepatic overload of iron are at special risk of Yersinia infection, since iron plays a major role in the metabolism of Yersinia. (18, 23, 28, 31, 32)... 

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