Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Scientific 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
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
	Yersinia scanned with electron micrograph
Specialty	Infectious disease

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.

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

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

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