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Exam Cram
Yersinia is a gram -ve rod causing gastroenteritis
Associations: under cooked pork
Presentation: travel history + mild diarrhoea, fever, RIF tenderness
Investigations: stool culture, CTAP; lymph node cluster at appendix (mesenteric adenitis)
Management: aminoglycosides
Notes
Notes
Yersinia enterocolitica
Presentation: Pseudo-appendicitis, Reactive Arthritis, Erythema Nodosum,
Management:
Aminoglycosides (gentamicin)
Reactive arthritis- nsaids
Association with Sickle Cell disease & Haemochromatosis due to iron overload from blood transfusions providing food for organism
Yersinia Pestis
Caused the Bubonic plaque
Vector: rat flea bite
Management: aminoglycosides (gentamicin), doxycycline
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