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Yersinia enterocolitica of different serotypes andY. intermedia, Y. frederiksenii, andY. kristensenii, in a total of nine strains, were inoculated intragastrically and intravenously into Swiss mice. The animals were observed daily to check for clinical alterations. Groups of five were killed intermittently at 6-h, and 3-, 6-, 10-, 15-,and 21-day periods or more after the inoculation; possible macroscopic alterations of the organs and tissues were checked. Development of infection at these periods was followed by performing viable bacterial counts on homogenates of selected tissues and the kinetics of infection was established. Clinical and pathologic alterations occurred only in the animals inoculated with the human strains ofY. enterocolitica 0:3 and 0:8, independent of the route of infection. After intragastric inoculation, theY. enterocolitica strains considered to be adapted to man were isolated from all organs and tissues, with the exception of the blood, from which only serotype 0:8 was isolated; otherYersinia strains were found only in the cecal content. After intravenous challenge, all the strains infected the organs and tissues at different times and in varied intensity, with exception of Peyer's patches and mesenteric lymph nodes, which were not infected by all theYersinia strains.
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Falcão, D.P., Shimizu, M.T. & Trabulsi, L.R. Kinetics of infection induced byYersinia . Current Microbiology 11, 303–308 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01567391
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