A pseudo-outbreak of Yersinia enterocolitica in sputum cultures among 4 hospitalized pneumonia patients in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 2024

2026/01/01 by Nottasorn Plipat, Jennifer Fiddner, Shannon McGinnis +6 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research #Escherichia coli research studies #Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/ash.2026.10381

openalex publication_date 2026/01/01 · openalex created_date 2026/04/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

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• We describe a pseudo-outbreak of Y. enterocolitica in sputum cultures from four patients admitted with pneumonia. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) revealed that all isolates were genetically indistinguis [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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